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A House Built on Water

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.

2002 |1h 51m |  

Cast

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Reza Kianian

Dr. Reza Sepidbakht

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Hedie Tehrani

Jale Tirandaz

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Ezzatollah Entezami

Dr. Sepidbakht's father

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Jamshid Mashayekhi

Dr. Latifian

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Bita Farrahi

Mrs. Taleghani

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Behnaz Jafari

Mojgan Ahadi

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Roya Nownahali

Mrs. Mohammadi

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Shabnam Toloui

Secretary

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Hossein Kasbian

Jale's father

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Mohsen Ghazi Moradi

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Mehran Rajabi

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Qasem Zare

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Maryam Boubani

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Ahmad Yavari Shad

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Status

Released

Language

Persian

Budget

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