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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Dariush Mehrjui
Script :
Dariush Mehrjui, Vahideh Mohamadifar
Photography :
Bahram Badakhshani
Editor :
Dariush Mehrjui
Cast :
Masumeh Bakhshi, Mohammad Habibian, Turan Yaghuti, Neda Aghai, Shadi Heidari, Ghader Heidari, Ali-Asghar Abbasi Aram, Mohsen Khayati, Morad Alipanah, Habib Rezai, Biuk Mirzai
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BEMANI
Dariush Mehrjui, whose 1969 THE COW ushered in the modern era of Iranian filmmaking, tells the stories of three contemporary young women in a remote village near the Iraqi border. Madina, a young Iraqi woman who works in the village weaving carpets, befriends an Iranian soldier who accompanies her home one day. Her male family members are outraged and cut off her head. Nassim is studying medicine at the university without her father's knowledge. She is found out and her father comes to drag her out of class. Locked in the cellar as punishment, she sets herself on fire. Bemani, the title heroine (her name means "to stay alive"), is given in marriage to her family's landlord to alleviate the burden of their rent. Reduced to little more than slavery, the young bride endures in pain until she can no longer tolerate her fate. She commits an act of desperation that is apparently not unknown in the region. A young doctor comments that perhaps larger hospitals should be built to accommodate the high rate of suicide attempts..."(BEMANI) possesses an immense rage and compassion, and often a remarkable visual sense, that confirms the talent of its author." -- Jean-Michel Frodon (Le Monde)
Dariush Mehrjui
Born in Tehran in 1940, Dariush Mehrjui studied philosophy at the University of California in Los Angeles then returned to Iran to begin his filmmaking career in 1967 with DIAMOND 33. His second feature, THE COW (1969), brought him national and international recognition and signaled the emergence of a new era in Iranian cinema. Among his other films: THE POSTMAN (1972), THE CYCLE (1973), HAMOON (1989), BANU (1991), SARA (1991), PARI (1994), LEILA (1996), THE PEAR TREE (1998), THE LADY (2000), TALES OF AN ISLAND (2000).
August 24, 2002 • 17:30:00 • EATON • E2.24.3 •
August 27, 2002 • 21:15:00 • EATON • E2.27.6 •
August 30, 2002 • 10:00:00 • EATON • E2.30.1 •
August 31, 2002 • 21:30:00 • PARISIEN • P4.31.6 •
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