THE HUNTER
by Rafi Pitts
synopsis
In an act of vengeance, Ali a nightwatcher in Tehran, randomly kills two police officers on a highway. He becomes a fugitive and flees torwards the northern forest, where he gets caught. In the remoteness of the wood, the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted begin to blur.
international title: | The Hunter |
original title: | Shekarchi |
country: | Iran, Germany |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2010 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Rafi Pitts |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | DE 08/04/2010, PL 06/08/2010, UK 29/10/2010, AT 11/02/2011, FR 16/02/2011, IT 17/06/2011, BE 27/07/2011 |
screenplay: | Rafi Pitts |
cast: | Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Malek Jahan Khazai, Ismaïl Amani, Ali Mazinani, Amir Ayoubi, Ossta Shah Tir |
cinematography by: | Mohammad Davudi |
film editing: | Hassan Hassandoost |
art director: | Malek Jahan Khazai |
producer: | Thanassis Karathanos, Mohammad Reza Takhtkeshian, Rafi Pitts |
production: | Twenty Twenty Vision, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE GEIE, Aftab Negaran Productions (IR) |
backing: | World Cinema Fund, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg |
distributor: | Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH, AP Mañana, Curzon Artificial Eye, Dulac Distribution, Fandango Distribuzione, Imagine |