Movielogr
Shirin (2008)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Overview
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text—long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East—remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Length 92 minutes
Actors
Taraneh Alidoosti | Pegah Ahangarani | Mahnaz Afshar | Juliette Binoche | Golshifteh Farahani | Leila Hatami | Behnaz Jafari | Mahtab keramati | Niki Karimi | Merila Zarei | Baran Kosari | Tannaz Tabatabaei | Negar Javaherian | Hediyeh Tehrani | Fatemah Motamed-Aria | Hanieh Tavassoli | Gohar Kheirandish | Homayoun Ershadi | Ra'na Azadivar | Sahar Dolatshahi | Rima Raminfar | Roya Taymourian | Bita Farahi