Shirin (2009)

You are the screen, they are the audience.

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.

Cast (100)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

Bahareh Afshari

Bahare Rahnama

Bahare Kianafshar

Behnaz Jafari

Bita Farrahi

Pantea Bahram

Parivash Nazarieh

Pouri Banaei

Sorayya Ghasemi

Hamide Kheyrabadi

H

Homeira Riazi

Khatereh Asadi

Khazar Ma'soumi

D

Darya Ashouri

Rabeh Oskouie

Raziyeh Boroumand

R

Ramona Shah

Rana Azadivar

Roya Teymourian

Roya Javidnia

Roya Nownahali

Rima Raminfar

Ziba Borufeh

Zhaleh Sameti

Zhale Olov

E

Elsa Firuz Azar

Sara Khoeniha

Sarah Manninen

Setare Eskandari

Setareh Pesyani

Sahar Dolatshahi

Sahar Valadbeygi

Solmaz Panahi

Shabnam Moghadami

Shaghayeh Djodat

Shaghayegh Dehghan

Shaghayegh Farahani

Shohre Soltani

Shahla Riahi

S

Shahnaz Shahbazi

Shirin Bina

S

Shiva Ebrahimi

A

Asal Badeei

Fatemeh Goudarzi

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