Name: Safar
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996-01-17
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Dariush Farhang, Farokhlagha Hushmand, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

Nuanced portrait of Iranian culture / not anit-war

Feeling from missile strikes in Tehran, a family drives all night in pouring rain. The father's stress erupts as road rage, causing two vehicles to crash. After they reach their country home a few kilometers away, his fear and guilt continues to unravel. It's actually a nuanced portrait of Iranian culture. The war just represents one of several inciting incidents.

Persian-language (primarily Iranian) cinema is acclaimed for poetic allegory, moral depth, and inventive ways of navigating censorship. It often uses non-professional actors, minimalism and symbolism to explore moral dilemmas, social issues, and the human condition under political constraints.

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An exploration of the psychological effects of war on a middle-class Iranian family who flee Teheran following a night air raid.

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