Shirin

Shirin

You are the screen, they are the audience.

2009•1h 32m•6.2/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.2/10(36)

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.

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Production

Kiarostami Foundation

Language

FA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Taraneh Alidoosti

Taraneh Alidoosti

Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche

Leila Hatami

Leila Hatami

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Hedie Tehrani

Hedie Tehrani

Pegah Ahangarani

Pegah Ahangarani

Baran Kosari

Baran Kosari

Tannaz Tabatabaei

Tannaz Tabatabaei

Ateneh Faghih Nasiri

Ateneh Faghih Nasiri

Azita Hajian

Azita Hajian

Afsaneh Bayegan

Afsaneh Bayegan

Afsane Chehreazad

Afsane Chehreazad

Elnaz Shakerdoost

Elnaz Shakerdoost

Elika Abdolrazzaghi

Elika Abdolrazzaghi

Irene Zazians

Irene Zazians

Bahareh Afshari

Bahareh Afshari

Bahare Rahnama

Bahare Rahnama

Bahare Kianafshar

Bahare Kianafshar

Behnaz Jafari

Behnaz Jafari

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