A RESPECTABLE FAMILY
synopsis
Arash is an Iranian academic who lives in the West. He returns to Iran to teach in Chiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he is reminded of the hardships of his childhood at the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1981. Following the death of his father and the discovery of what his "respectable family" has become, he is obliged to make choices.
international title: | A Respectable Family |
original title: | Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram |
country: | France, Iran |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Massoud Bakhshi |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | NL 18/10/2012, BE 31/10/2012, FR 31/10/2012 |
screenplay: | Massoud Bakhshi |
cast: | Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi, Ahu Kheradmand, Parivash Nazarieh, Behnaz Jafari |
cinematography by: | Mehdi Jafari |
film editing: | Jacques Comets |
producer: | Mohammad Afarideh, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin |
production: | JBA Production, Firoozei Films/Iran |
distributor: | Imagine, Pyramide Distribution, Imagine |