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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’.Read moreLess
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’.
The story
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’.
Cast & crew
Baran KosariBaroon
Navid MohammadzadehPasha
Maryam PalizbanMaryam
Reza BehboudiDoctor
Mehdi KoushkiMalak
Behnaz JafariMaryam's friend (Social Activist)
Parivash NazariehAttorney
Nader FallahWitness
Ardeshir RostamiSociologist
Hossein PakdelThe Judge
Behrang AlaviMaryam's suitorExplore the crew
- Director
- Reza Dormishian
- Writer
- Reza Dormishian
- Original Music Composer
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Director of Photography
- Ashkan Ashkani
- Producer
- Reza Dormishian
- Editor
- Hayedeh Safiyari