Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Jasmina Ali | ... | Amirs Girlfriend, School Official |
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Hasan Ali Mete | ... | Judge |
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi | ... | Sara (as Zar Amir Ebrahimi) | |
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Milinko Ametovic Beganovic | ... | Boy on the motorcycle (as Paul Basonga) |
Alireza Bayram | ... | Mohsen | |
Siir Eloglu | ... | Schwiegermutter | |
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Adem Karaduman | ... | Mohsens Colleague |
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Morteza Latif | ... | Studio Owner |
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Aida Loos | ... | Gynecologist |
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Payam Madjlessi | ... | Ahmad / Punter / Basiji 1 |
Arash Marandi | ... | Babak | |
Thomas Nash | ... | Joseph | |
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Negar Mona Alizadeh | ... | Donya |
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Klaus Ofczarek | ... | Father-in-Law |
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Farhad Payar | ... | Taxidriver, Counterfeiter |
In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to "restore" her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a prostitute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug addict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. Making use of rotoscope animation, expat Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh creates a portrait of contemporary Tehran that would be impossible by any other means. Written by Anonymous
A powerful film that leaves the viewer completely appalled at the end. Rotoscoping is ideally suited to this film by allowing the viewer to focus on the action and dialogues without being distracted by the details of untransformed images. This lets the viewer realize how religions, especially that which prevails in Iran and elsewhere, have been invented to control people, especially women. In Tehran Taboo, religion is clearly exposed as a catalyst used by criminally insane authorities to facilitate their crimes. Made me glad to be an atheist.