Overview
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Silver Bear for Best Director (2009)
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Nominations
2 award nominations, including the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film (2009)
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Setting
Set in Caspian Sea
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Hossein Jafarian
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Azad JafarianStory
- Asghar FarhadiWriter, Screenplay
- Original title
- درباره الی
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 6, 2009
- Original language
- Persian
- Countries
- Iran
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Cast
Taraneh AlidoostiElly
Golshifteh FarahaniSepideh
Shahab HosseiniAhmad
Merila ZareiShohreh
Mani HaghighiAmir
Payman MaadiPeyman
Rana AzadivarNaazi
Ahmad MehranfarManoochehr
Saber AbarAlireza- Milad BagheriFardManouchehr's Brother
Sajjad DolatiMehran- Matin FatourechiArash
- Abolfazl HeidariHamed
- Ehsan NazariMohamad
- Masoud NaziriAlireza
Mohamad Ramezani PourPilot- Farshid PourasgharFarshid
- Amir Hossein RezaeeArvin Sahandi
- Az RhmtiAli
- Kian RostamiHamed
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