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The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 65 mins · Persian
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- Directed by
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Starring
- Mehrdad Farid, Parvaneh Gowharani, Zeinab Rahdari, Mozhgan Naderi, Manuchehr Esmaili
Across three eras—before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution—an anthropologist and his daughter live beside a river that watches. The daughter works in an emergency ward where suicidal patients arrive for reasons that shift with politics. One patient, seeking a reason to live, falls in love with her, linking hope to the nation’s turmoil.
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