Film

Shirin

2009 · 1h 32m · Drama

You are the screen, they are the audience.

IMDb

6.7

Rotten Tomatoes

80%

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.

Taraneh Alidoosti

Golshifteh Farahani

Juliette Binoche

Leila Hatami

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Hedie Tehrani

Pegah Ahangarani

Baran Kosari

Tannaz Tabatabaei

Ateneh Faghih Nasiri

Azita Hajian

Afsaneh Bayegan

Afsane Chehreazad

Elnaz Shakerdoost

Elika Abdolrazzaghi

Irene Zazians

• Abbas KiarostamiDirector · Producer · Editor
• Mohammad RahmanianScreenplay
• Hamideh RazaviProducer
• Mahmoud KalariDirector of Photography
• Hooman BehmaneshDirector of Photography
• Arash SadeghiEditor
• Hadiseh TehraniCasting

Release date

April 18, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Persian

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama

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