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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Atashkar/Fire keeper












Director : Mohsen Amiryoussefi
Country : Iran
Running Time: 83 mins.

Forty-eight-year-old Sohrab is foreman at the vast Ispahan steelworks. He lives in the steel town of Fouladshahr and has just had a fourth daughter. His wife’s health prevents her from having any more children. Despite his yearnings for a son, Sohrab’s wife persuades him to see a specialist about getting a vasectomy. The method employed will render him forever sterile. On the eve of the operation his dead father appears in a dream forbidding him from undergoing the surgery. And so Sohrab enters a period of doubt. He asks his wife to change her mind and, in his dreams, tries to change that of his father……all to no avail....

Mohsen Amiryoussefi

Mohsen Amiryoussefi is a critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter.He belongs to the third generation of Iranian "New wave".Amiryoussefi first came to prominence with his 2004 black comedy "Bitter Dream," about a funeral director. It took home the Camera d'Or at that year's Cannes as well as generous critical acclaim.

Rating : 7.3/10

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