Plot
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Release Year: 2011
Rating: 8.6/10 (40,802 voted)
Critic's Score: 95/100
Director:
Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat
Storyline Nader ('Peyman Moaadi' ) and Simin (
Cast: Peyman Moadi
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Nader
Leila Hatami
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Simin
Sareh Bayat
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Razieh
Shahab Hosseini
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Hodjat
Sarina Farhadi
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Termeh
Merila Zare'i
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Miss Ghahraii
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi
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Nader's Father
Babak Karimi
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Interrogator
Kimia Hosseini
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Somayeh
Shirin Yazdanbakhsh
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Simin's Mother
Sahabanu Zolghadr
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Azam
Mohammadhasan Asghari
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Creditor
Shirin Azimiyannezhad
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Woman in the Bus
Hamid Dadju
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Creditor
Mohammad Ebrahimian
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Judge
Opening Weekend: IRR 1,023,080,000
(Iran)
(18 March 2011)
Gross: $13,454,000
(non-USA)
(30 December 2011)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
First Iranian film to receive nomination for an Academy Award in the Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen category.
Quotes: Hodjat:
[to Nader]
Shame on you! You call yourself a man?
User Review
A Perfection
Rating: 10/10
If mainstream cinema leaves you soulless, see this film.
If you have a modicum of intelligence, see this film.
If you like great acting and directing, see this film.
If you like great writing and editing, see this film.
If you have an interest in law, see this film.
If you are a parent, see this film.
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read any more detailed reviews. Go without preconception. A Separation
deserves all the plaudits it is getting and deserves a much wider
audience. Minimalistic and economic, a Separation is one of the finest,
most chiselled pieces of cinema of this millennium.
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