Film
The Hidden Half
2001 · 1h 43m · Drama
- IMDb
- 6.9
- Metacritic
- 49
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Overview
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
Cast
Niki Karimi
Fereshteh
Mohammad Nikbin
Roozbeh Javid
Atila Pesyani
Husband
Akbar Moazezi
Mr. Rastegar
Afarin Obeisi
Crew
- Tahmine MilaniDirector · Producer · Writer
- Mohammad NikbinProducer
- Mahmoud KalariDirector of Photography
- Bahram DehghaniEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- February 6, 2001
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Persian
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Drama
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