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Lantouri (2016)
Directed by Reza Dormishian
Overview
Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.
Length 115 minutes
Actors
Baran Kosari | Navid Mohammadzadeh | Maryam Palizban | Reza Behbudi | Mehdi Koushki | Behnaz Jafari | Fatemeh Naghavi | Parivash Nazarieh | Nader Fallah | Ardeshir Rostami | Hossein Pakdel | Behrang Alavi | Setareh Pesyani | Bahram Afshari | Siavash Cheraghipour | Fergaledgar