Shirin
You are the screen, they are the audience.
6.2
38 votes
2009
1h 32m
Drama
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.
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Top cast
Taraneh Alidoosti
Golshifteh Farahani
Juliette Binoche
Leila Hatami
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Hedie Tehrani
Pegah Ahangarani
Baran Kosari
Tannaz Tabatabaei
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Azita Hajian
Afsaneh Bayegan
Afsane Chehreazad
Elnaz Shakerdoost
Elika Abdolrazzaghi
Irene Zazians
Bahareh Afshari
Bahare Rahnama
Bahare Kianafshar
Behnaz Jafari
Details
Status
Released
Release date
April 18, 2009
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
Persian
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