Film

Dancing in the Dust

2004 · 1h 35m · Drama

IMDb

6.8

When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered.

Faramarz Gharibian

The Old Man

Yousef Khodaparast

Nazar

Baran Kosari

Rayhaneh

Jalal Sarhad Seraj

Amri

Saeed Noorullahi

• Asghar FarhadiDirector · Writer
• Alireza BazrafshanWriter
• Mohammad Reza FazeliWriter
• Iraj TaghipoorProducer
• Hassan KarimiDirector of Photography
• Hamidreza SadriOriginal Music Composer
• Saeed ShahsavariEditor

Release date

January 23, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

Persian

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Drama