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A House Built on Water(2002)
Status: Released
Date: 2002-04-01
75%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 51m
The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity
Overview:
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Languages: Persian.
Countries:
Iran
Movie: A House Built on Water
Top 10 Billed Cast
رضا کیانیان
Dr. Reza Sepidbakht
Hedie Tehrani
Jale Tirandaz
عزتالله انتظامی
Dr. Sepidbakht's father
جمشید مشایخی
Dr. Latifian
Bita Farrahi
Mrs. Taleghani
Behnaz Jafari
Mojgan Ahadi
Roya Nownahali
Mrs. Mohammadi
Shabnam Toloui
Secretary
Hossein Kasbian
Jale's father
Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
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Overview
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Release Date
2002-04-01
Average
7.5
Rating:
3.8 startsTagline
The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity
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Languages:
فارسی
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