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WOMEN WITHOUT MEN, an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel, is Iranian artist Shirin Neshat's first feature length film. The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953 a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history when an American led, British backed coup d'etat brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah to power.
Original Release
07/01/2009
US Release
03/30/2010
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Shabnam Toloui | Munis |
Pegah Ferydoni | Faezeh |
Arita Shahrzad | Farrokhlagha |
Orsolya Tóth | Zarin (as Orsi Toth) / Zarin |
Ahmad Hamed | Gardener |
Navid Navid | Ali |
Bijan Daneshmand | Abbas |
Essa Zahir | Amir Khan |
Tahmoures Tehrani | General Sadri |
Abbas Bakhtiari | Singer |
Directors
Writers
Shahrnoush Parsipour, Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari, Steven Henry Madoff
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shabnam Toloui | Munis |
Pegah Ferydoni | Faezeh |
Arita Shahrzad | Farrokhlagha |
Orsolya Tóth | Zarin (as Orsi Toth) / Zarin |
Ahmad Hamed | Gardener |
Navid Navid | Ali |
Bijan Daneshmand | Abbas |
Essa Zahir | Amir Khan |
Tahmoures Tehrani | General Sadri |
Abbas Bakhtiari | Singer |
Mehdi Moinzadeh | Communist Leader |
Farhad Payar | Leading Officer |
Said Oveissi | Hassan |
Mithra Zahedi | Nahid |
Mina Azarian | Zinat |
Shahbaz Noshir | Arash |
Nader Farman | Babak |
Youssef Nabil | Youssef |
Natasha Chudyk | Christine |
Aziz Hattab | Comrade |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jerome de Noirmont | Executive Producer |
Barbara Gladstone | Executive Producer |
Shoja Azari | Producer |
Philippe Bober | Producer |
Martin Gschlacht | Producer |
Peter Hermann | Producer |
Barbara Häbe | Producer |
Oleg Kokhan | Producer |
Susanne Marian | Producer |
Heinrich Mis | Producer |
Erwin M. Schmidt | Producer |
Andreas Schreitmüller | Producer |
Joerg E. Schweizer | Producer |
Holger Stern | Producer |
Antonin Svoboda | Producer |
Bruno Wagner | Producer |
Isabell Wiegand | Producer |
Manfred Zurhorst | Producer |
Editors
Julia Wiedwald, Christof Schertenleib, Jay Rabinowitz, Patrick Lambertz, George Cragg