SYNOPSIS

A small town in winter, as one man leaves his family to look for
work abroad, another arrives. Charismatic and confident he is soon meeting the first man's wife...

With its scenes of landscapes shrouded in snow, and its painterly sense of lighting and composition, this is a visually superb tale of forbidden passion. It has a quiet, stark beauty, yet offers a vision
of a country blighted by poverty, ignorance and unemployment, but reserves its most damning criticism for the attitudes of Iranian men. With its unsavoury but magnetic anti-hero this owes as much to film noir as the neorealism normally associated with Iranian cinema.

"...a deeply considered and wonderfully composed film,"

20 Festival Selections and 3 Awards including Berlin Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Paris Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Seoul Film Festival, Viennale Film Festival, Valladolid Film Festival


CAST AND CREW

Director: Rafi Pitts
Producer: Mohammad Mehdi Dadgoo
Screenplay: Rafi Pitts – based on a story by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Director of photography: Mohammad Davoodi
Art Director: Malak D. Khazai
Cast: Mitra Hadjar, Ali Niksolat, Saeed Orkani
Editor: Hassan Hassandoost
Music: Hossein Alizadeh, Mohammad Reza Shajarian
Sound: Yadollah Nadjafi, Naser Shokohinia