Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine

09/08/2000

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1hr 33min

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Drama

STORY

Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece's husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that's left?

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Bahman Farmanara
  • Parivash Nazarieh
  • Reza Kianian
  • Roya Nownahali
  • Mohammad Khatami

    Director

  • Bahman Farmanara

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Hedayat Film

    Production Countries

  • Iran

LANGUAGES

  • Persian