Movie
The Scent of Joseph's Shirt
1995 · 100 min
A quiet, sorrowful search through a country's unhealed wounds, carried by stubborn hope and patient, aching performances.
- Directed by
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Starring
- Niki Karimi, Ali Nasirian, Jafar Dehghan
- Overview
- َA father, Daei Ghafur, does not accept his son's death during 1980-1988 conflict between Iran and Iraq, and believes he is alive despite all evidence indicating otherwise. One day he meets a young lady, Shirin, at the airport who has travelled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Both start searching their loved ones...
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest, tense and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, family, war, faith
- Content
- Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Starring
- Niki Karimi, Ali Nasirian, Jafar Dehghan
