A House Built on Water
2002 · 111 min
Drama
★ 7.5Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Crew
- Director Bahman Farmanara
- Writer Bahman Farmanara
- Director of Photography Mahmoud Kalari
Cast
Reza Kianian
Dr. Reza Sepidbakht
Hedie Tehrani
Jale Tirandaz
Ezzatollah Entezami
Dr. Sepidbakht's father
Jamshid Mashayekhi
Dr. Latifian
Bita Farrahi
Mrs. Taleghani
Behnaz Jafari
Mojgan Ahadi
Roya Nownahali
Mrs. Mohammadi
Shabnam Toloui
Secretary
Hossein Kasbian
Jale's father
Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
Mehran Rajabi
Qasem Zare
Crew
- Director — Bahman Farmanara
- Writer — Bahman Farmanara
- Director of Photography — Mahmoud Kalari
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