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About Elly

Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
Production Year: 2009   Country: Iran    Length: 119 minutes

Synopsis

A group of friends leave Tehran for a long weekend on the Caspian Sea. A young nursery teacher named Elly is invited along to join the good friends and family. The reason is soon made apparent. She’s being set-up with a recently divorced man.What seems simple on the surface rarely is in a Farhadi film, and over an easy-going holiday, tensions rise until a crisis point is triggered, and Elly goes missing. A mystery develops and as the drama heightens, Farhadi zooms in on the issues inherent in truth, lies, and the places in between. What is the truth About Elly?

CREDITS

Andrea BauerDirector: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Azad Jafarian, Asghar Farhadi
Producers: Mahmoud Razavi, Mehdi Nt, Asghar Farhadi
Cinematographer: Hossein Jafarian
Production Designer: Asghar Farhadi
Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari, Iman Rahimi
Sound Design: Nick Tonez
Music: Andrea Bauer

CASTING

Golshifteh Farahani
Shahab Hosseini
Taraneh Alidoosti
Merila Zare’i
Mani Haghighi
Payman Maadi
Ra’na Azadivar
Ahmad Mehranfar
Saber Abar

In Competition – Feature Films

In Competition – Feature Films