Fiction
TALAYE SORGH
CRIMSON GOLD
Jafar Panahi
Iran 2003
97 min
V'03
Hussein is a fat, shambling wreck of a man, a war veteran on medication whos barely holding down a job delivering pizzas to the wealthy of Tehran. Talaye Sorgh opens with his tragically inept attempt to rob a jewellery store, then backtracks to show the social and economic mess that has pushed this gentle giant to violence. Where Panahis The Circle exposed the hidden oppression of women in Iran, this time his concern is with class. The film has a sharp script by Abbas Kiarostami, comic touches worthy of prime Mike Leigh, potent atmosphere and gangster-film trappings that, improbably, recall Michael Mann. (S.F. Said)
Credits
- Hussein Emadeddin - Hussein
- Kamyar Sheissi - Ali
- Azita Rayeji - Braut
- Pourang Nakhayi - Pourang
- Shahram Vaziri - Juwelier
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Hossain Jafarian
- Laurent Bailly
- Massoud Behnam
- Jafar Panahi
- Peyman Yazdanian
- Iraj Raminfar
Jafar Panahi Film Productions 3 Vozara Street 37th Street 2nd Floor Teheran, Iran jafarpanahi@yahoo.com
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35 mm
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