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Abbas Kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final installment of The Koker Trilogy. Unfolding “behind the scenes” of And Life Goes On, this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors—a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him—creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle. An ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of Iranian village life, Through the Olive Trees peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality.
Original Release
02/01/1994
US Release
09/25/1994
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Mohamad Ali Keshavarz | Film Director |
Farhad Kheradmand | Farhad |
Zarifeh Shiva | Mrs. Shiva |
Hossein Rezai | Hossein |
Tahereh Ladanian | Tahereh |
Hocine Redai | Hocine |
Zahra Nourouzi | Kouly's Daughter |
Nosrat Bagheri | Achiz |
Azim Aziz Nia | Azim |
Ostadvali Babaei | Teacher |
Directors
Writers
Abbas Kiarostami, Hengameh Panahi, Harold Manning
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mohamad Ali Keshavarz | Film Director |
Farhad Kheradmand | Farhad |
Zarifeh Shiva | Mrs. Shiva |
Hossein Rezai | Hossein |
Tahereh Ladanian | Tahereh |
Hocine Redai | Hocine |
Zahra Nourouzi | Kouly's Daughter |
Nosrat Bagheri | Achiz |
Azim Aziz Nia | Azim |
Ostadvali Babaei | Teacher |
N. Boursadiki | Tahra |
Khodabakhsh Defaei | Teacher |
Ahmed Ahmed Poor | Himself / Self |
Babek Ahmed Poor | Himself / Self |
Mahbanou Darabi | |
Kardouni Nouri | |
Hossein Jafarian | Self / Himself |
Jafar Panahi | Dastyar / Himself |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Abbas Kiarostami | Producer |
Alain Depardieu | Producer |