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Through the Olive Trees
IRAN · 1994

Through the Olive Trees

Abbas Kiarostami
filmmaking and cinema romantic tension social class differences village life in Iran performance and authenticity
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Synopsis

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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