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A House Built on Water

04/01/2002

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1hr 51min

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The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Reza Kianian
  • Hedie Tehrani
  • Ezzatollah Entezami
  • Jamshid Mashayekhi
  • Bita Farrahi

    Director

  • Bahman Farmanara

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Iran

LANGUAGES

  • Persian

Cast

Reza Kianian

Dr. Reza Sepidbakht

Hedie Tehrani

Jale Tirandaz

Ezzatollah Entezami

Dr. Sepidbakht's father

Jamshid Mashayekhi

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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