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Marge Digari

1982

A grave, talk-heavy moral pressure cooker that weighs a single decision against thousands of lives. Tense and philosophical, it asks for patience and rewards it with unease.

Directed by
Mohamad Reza Honarmand
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mohammad Kasebi, Majid Majidi, Jafar Dehghan
Overview
A military commander is about to launch a major war that will result in the destruction of thousands of people. A few minutes before the operation, as he prepares to begin, he encounters an unknown person who

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Directed by
Mohamad Reza Honarmand
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mohammad Kasebi, Majid Majidi, Jafar Dehghan
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • war
    • morality
    • death
    • power
    • fate
    Places
    • military
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism6
    Romance0
    Tension7
    Darkness7
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight8

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    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Mohamad Reza Honarmand
    Written by
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Starring
    Mohammad Kasebi, Majid Majidi, Jafar Dehghan
    Languages
    Persian

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