A Very Ordinary Citizen

Directed by Majid Barzegar
Iran | 2015 | 100 min | Unclassified 15+
Language: Persian (English Subtitles)
SYNOPSIS

After the death of his wife and facing the onset of Alzheimer’s Mr Safari, an eighty-year-old pensioner, decides to visit his son, who lives abroad and cannot return home for security reasons.
Sara, a young woman working in a travel agency, is given the task of organising Mr Safari’s travel arrangements.
But then Mr Safiri falls in love with Sara, gives up all ideas of travelling and decides, before his memory completely fails, to express his love for Sara at any price, even if it involves murder.

FESTIVALS

51st Chicago International Film Festival
56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
20th Kerala International Film Festival
Edinburgh Iranian Film Festival
29th Finale Plzen Film Festival
3rd Köln Iranian Film Festival
4ème Festival Cinéma (s) d’Iran,
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival

A Very Ordinary Citizen

Directed by Majid Barzegar
Iran | 2015 | 100 min | Unclassified 15+
Language: Persian (English Subtitles)
SYNOPSIS

After the death of his wife and facing the onset of Alzheimer’s Mr Safari, an eighty-year-old pensioner, decides to visit his son, who lives abroad and cannot return home for security reasons. Sara, a young woman working in a travel agency, is given the task of organising Mr Safari’s travel arrangements. But then Mr Safiri falls in love with Sara, gives up all ideas of travelling and decides, before his memory completely fails, to express his love for Sara at any price, even if it involves murder.

FESTIVALS

51st Chicago International Film Festival
56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
20th Kerala International Film Festival
Edinburgh Iranian Film Festival
29th Finale Plzen Film Festival
3rd Köln Iranian Film Festival
4ème Festival Cinéma (s) d’Iran,
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival

CREDITS

Director: Majid Barzegar
Writers: Hamed Rajabi, Bardia Yadegari, Majid Barzegar
Producer: Saeed Armand
Cinematographer: Amin Jafari
Production Designer: Leila Naghdi Pari
Sound: Mehdi Saleh Kermani
Editing: Javad Emami
Makeup: Elham Salehi

CAST

Soured Mnatsakanian
Shadi Karamroudi
Nahid Hadadi

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