Low Heights (2002)
"Ertefae Past" (original title)

Ghasem (Hamid Farokhnezhad) with his wife, Narges (Leila Hatami), his mother and other relatives and parents take a flight to Bandar Abbas, to get hired in an industrial company. Since the ... See full summary »

Director:

Ebrahim Hatamikia

Writers:

Asghar Farhadi, Ebrahim Hatamikia

Stars:

Hamid Farokhnezhad, Leila Hatami, Gohar Kheirandish

Cast

Credited cast:
Hamid Farokhnezhad	...	Ghasem
Leila Hatami	...	Narges
Gohar Kheirandish	...	Atieh
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mohammad Ali Inanloo	...	Pilot
Mehdi Saki
Reza Shafi' Jam

Storyline

Ghasem (Hamid Farokhnezhad) with his wife, Narges (Leila Hatami), his mother and other relatives and parents take a flight to Bandar Abbas, to get hired in an industrial company. Since the conditions of work and life are hardly satisfactory, everyone accepts the invitation with pleasure. Narges (Leila Hatami) is the only one who knows the true intention of her husband. Once the plane takes off and flies in the sky, Ghasem (Hamid Farokhnezhad) out a gun, disarms sole custody in the plane, the pilot goal threat of hacking and requires a change of destination to Dubai. At a time when the attacker and his accomplices are concerned about a conflict between them, the second security guard, loop the pirate by surprise maneuver him out of the gun. As the plane takes its way to the destination country, new pirates succeed, a maneuver conducted by Narges (Leila Hatami) to grab the gun and redirect the plane to Dubai. Shortage of fuel, the plane ends up crashing into the water in the middle of ...

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Plot Keywords:

iranian couple | iranian | airplane hijacking | iran

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Iran

Language:

Persian English Arabic

Release Date:

25 February 2003 (Kuwait)

Also Known As:

Low Heights

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min 115 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

User Reviews

"Low Height" is one of the best cultural movie that i seen so far.

Hi all I think in order to talk about "low height" we must first be familiar with the Iranian culture and current political and social condition of Iran. Unfortunately I see the comments that says: "we laugh in the film with no reason". But I should that, each of the film's dialogs and each of the film's snapshot, remember us to the one notation of the Iranians culture; that if you aren't familiar with the Iranian culture, surely can't understand them. May be the only weakness of the film was this:"the film is excellent, but only for Iranian people that can understand the film". It means that the film isn't an international film. When I saw the film, I can't do anything until about two day's. I just think about the message of the film, the message of the director. Be sure that if you was familiar with the Iranian's culture, so you can found the message's of the film too. Finally I should say that, Hatamikia is a director that make films for that his country man, not worlds people. So it may be a weakness or a strong point of his work. Sandy Scott