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The Scent of Joseph’s Shirt (1995) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1995 · 100 mins · Persian
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- Starring
- Ebrahim Hatamikia, Shirin Bina, Niki Karimi, Qasem Zare, Ali Nasirian, Jafar Dehghan
A father, Daei Ghafur, refuses to accept his son’s death in the 1980‑1988 Iran‑Iraq war and believes he is still alive. At an airport he meets Shirin, a young woman who has traveled from Europe to Iran to find her brother Khosrow, a missing soldier. Together they search for their lost loved ones, confronting memory, loss and hope.
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