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.
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Asghar Farhadi
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Title: Darbareye Elly (2009)
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20 wins & 13 nominations.
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Cast
| Credited cast: | |||
| Golshifteh Farahani | ... | Sepideh | |
| Shahab Hosseini | ... | Ahmad | |
| Taraneh Alidoosti | ... | Elly | |
| Merila Zare'i | ... | Shohreh | |
| Mani Haghighi | ... | Amir | |
| Payman Maadi | ... | Peyman (as Peyman Moaadi) | |
| Ra'na Azadivar | ... | Naazi | |
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Ahmad Mehranfar | ... | Manoochehr |
| Saber Abar | ... | Alireza (as Saber Abbar) | |
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Alireza Abbasi | ... | Kazem (as Abbas Abedini Masouleh) |
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Abbas Abedini | ... | Hooman |
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Saleh Esmaeilpor | ... | Reza bs |
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Kamibekami | ||
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A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that she has to return to Tehran because her mother has been recently submitted to hospital for heart surgery, but Sepideh asks her to stay and hides her luggage. The children are playing in the sea and one mother asks Elly to watch them. Out of the blue, Sepideh's daughter calls to some men playing volleyball to rescue one of the children from the water. After rescuing the little boy they seek out Elly, questioning whether she has drowned or returned to Tehran. What has happened to Elly? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Selected by Indiewire critics as one of the top 10 foreign language movies of 2015. See more »Goofs
When they decide to stay in the villa and start to clean it, Ahmad calls the boy (Omid) by name asking him about where he can find a vacuum cleaner. Seconds later, he asks the boy about his name. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Release Date:
6 June 2009 (Iran) See more »Also Known As:
Darbareye Elly See more »Filming Locations:
Tonekabon, Mazandaran, IranEdit
Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$13,180, 12 April 2015Gross USA:
$470,760Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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that wasn't what i expected because i thought it would be a normal film but since I've seen it, i cannot stop thinking about it...i had never seen any movie like that before.it shocked me during it and after it.i cannot put it in the words as i can't speak English well...anyway,great movie and actually great Iranian movie so far...best natural plays,best good directed film,you cannot imagine what I'm trying to say if you haven't seen it yet...i have seen all of his films and i enjoyed them a lot and all i know about him that he is a real talented and genius Iranian who0 knows what he wants and what he is about to create...i watched this movie just once but I'm gonna buy its DVD and then watch it over and over to find more the other things that i couldn't find that time.it is so hard to excite the people's emotions but he proved that if you tell the truth,it seems really easy.that was my country's reality and i cannot deny it.that's what we are gonna do and say and think if we be on that situation...thanks Mr.director,I'm proud of you so much