Shirin

Shirin

92 mins | Drama | Jan. 20, 2008

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.

Shirin

92 mins | Drama | Jan. 20, 2008

Shirin
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Abbas Kiarostami Productions
Original title شیرین
Directors Abbas Kiarostami
Writers Nizami Ganjavi

Cast

Tarane Alidousti

as Woman in audience

Pegah Ahangarani

as Woman in audience

Mahnaz Afshar

as Woman in audience

Juliette Binoche

as Woman in audience

Golshifteh Farahani

as Woman in audience

Leila Hatami

as Woman in audience

Behnaz Jafari

as Woman in audience

Mahtab Keramati

as Woman in audience

Niki Karimi

as Woman in audience