Khanei ruye ab

"The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity"

Mar 19 2003 N/A 1h 48m
Drama, Fantasy

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.

Plot

A surrealist story about Dr. Sepidbakht who one night when driving hit an angel with his car and his hand is injured deeply by touching that angel's fingers. He has several problems in his life that during the story are unfolds. His past relationships with some women colleagues, his old father, his addicted son who returned home from the west and some unknown guys who chase him and want to kill him.

Written by

Bahman Farmanara

Directed by

Bahman Farmanara

Cast

Ezzatolah Entezami, Reza Kianian, Hediyeh Tehrani

Crew

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Production Countries

Iran

Languages

Awards

5 wins

Scores
# of Votes
1,275
Average Rating
6.6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA