While touching on subjects as serious and diverse as capital punishment, the devaluation of women in Iran and the true Islamic concept of forgiveness, this powerful melodrama from the Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is anything but a message movie. Two years after murdering his teenage girlfriend in a fit of passion, 18-year-old Akbar (Hossein Farzi-Zadeh) has been transferred from the youth detention center in the Shar-e Ziba ("Beautiful City") neighborhood of Tehran to the adult prison where his sentence — death by hanging — is to be carried out. The only things keeping him alive this long is the fact Akbar was a minor, and that his victim's father, Rahm...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
101 mins