Movie
The Immigrants
1992 · 90 min
A slow, sorrowful look at hardship and fragile hope, carried by quiet performances and a sense of lingering injustice.
- Directed by
- Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Abolfazl Pourarab, Fatemeh Goudarzi, Hossein Panahi
- Overview
- Between the years 1941-51, many immigrants went to the south of Iran to work for the oil companies there. A couple, Tal'at and Karamat also go there in hope of a better life. But Tal'at, who is pregnant, catches leperosy and they have to remain outside the city. The husband makes a tea-house and they stay there. An immigrant girl Manzar who had lost her parents, come to the tea-house and lives by them too.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, bleak and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Survival, isolation, family, politics
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Abolfazl Pourarab, Fatemeh Goudarzi, Hossein Panahi
