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To Stay Alive is a iranien film directed by Dariush Mehrjui
To Stay Alive (2002)
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Add to a movie listTo Stay Alive (Persian: بمانی, translit. Bemani) is a 2002 Iranian drama film directed by Dariush Mehrjui. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
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The film is about an apartment in Tehran and its various tenants.
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Genres Drama
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Téhéran. Le destin tragique d'un vieillard, misérable et gravement malade, essayant d'être admis, avec l'aide de son fils, Ali, dans un des hôpitaux les plus modernes de la capitale. Aux portes de l'hôpital, un homme en voiture leur propose de gagner un peu d'argent. Il les conduit ensuite vers un camion rempli de clochards et de drogués donnant leur sang. L'homme qui se livre à cette opération touche une commission. Au cours d'une réunion du personnel de l'hôpital, un médecin dénonce le sang contaminé fourni à longueur d'année et qui provoque la mort des patients. Ali se livre, à présent, à un fructueux trafic. En même temps, son père décède suite à de pénibles souffrances.
The Music Man (2007)
, 1h46Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Bahram Radan, Golshifteh Farahani, Roya Teymourian, Nader Soleimani, Hasan Pourshirazi
Rating74%
The film begins near the end of the film's timeline. Ali Bolourchi, a santour player (Bahram Radan) narrates his life after his wife Hanieh (Golshifteh Farahani) left him. Ali now makes a living playing music with his band at weddings and house parties where he is often given drugs instead of money to support his heroin addiction. At one of the weddings in which Ali is playing, a mob opposed to the wedding storm the party, beat the guests, destroy the band's instruments and break Ali's arm. The story then flashes back to happier times when Ali and his wife Hanieh are coming up with the lyrics of the song which Ali was singing at the wedding. The film then shows a house party where Ali is performing and his drug use with his friend and band-mate Tamayol (Mahyar Pourhessabi) are highlighted. At the same party Hanieh meets a musician named Javid (Siamak Khahani) who invites Hanieh to join a musical group that plays for charities and goodwill events. The film then shows the downfall of Ali and Hanieh's marriage caused by Ali's increasing drug use as well as his hate for Javid. Ali beats Hanieh and she goes to her mother's (Maedeh Tahmasebi) house. Hanieh later explains to Javid that Ali's tapes and concerts were banned by the government forcing him to play at house parties and weddings to make ends meet, but for payment he was often given drugs and booze instead of money leading to his addiction. Again the film flashes back to happier times, showing how Hanieh and Ali met, their courtship, wedding and the beginnings of their married life.
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, 1h43Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Actors Parsa Piroruzfar, Amin Hayai, Nasrin Moghanloo, Hasan Pourshirazi
Rating70%
Mrs. Effat (Golab Adineh), a mother of two, receives word that her nephew and his wife are going to be visiting. Despite not being wealthy, Mr. Effat tries to prepare a respectable dinner party with the help of her cinema loving husband, Mr. Effat (Hasan Pourshirazi) and her two children. Amir and Bahareh. Meanwhile the Effat's drug addict neighbour, Yusuf (Parsa Pirouzfar) is desperate for some drugs after his wife has flushed his stash down the toilet. The eccentric old lady (Farideh Sepah-Mansour) who takes care of her chicken is also not making things much easier...
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Rating65%
Pari is a student of literature at a university in Tehran. She is a confident yet angry girl who is projecting her inner struggle by outwards aggression towards her tutor, her fiancé and her brother and she is on the verge of a nervous breakdown or a mental suicide.
Sara (1993)
, 1h32Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Niki Karimi, Khosrow Shakibai, Amin Tarokh, Dariush Mehrjui
Rating65%
Sara is the perfect young housewife. However, when husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who gets the funds. For the next three years Sara labours secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's pride... until the truth is revealed and, with it, the reality of her marriage.
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, 1h41Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Ezatollah Entezami, Ali Nassirian
Rating73%