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The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.Read moreLess
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
The story
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Cast & crew
Reza KianianDr. Reza Sepidbakht
Hedie TehraniJale Tirandaz
Ezzatollah EntezamiDr. Sepidbakht's father
Jamshid MashayekhiDr. Latifian
Bita FarrahiMrs. Taleghani
Behnaz JafariMojgan Ahadi
Roya NownahaliMrs. Mohammadi
Shabnam TolouiSecretary
Hossein KasbianJale's father
Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
Mehran RajabiCast
Qasem ZareCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Bahman Farmanara
- Editor
- Abbas Ganjavi
- Writer
- Bahman Farmanara
- Producer
- Bahman Farmanara
- Director of Photography
- Mahmoud Kalari
- Original Music Composer
- Ahmad Pezhman