A Separation

جدایی نادر از سیمین (2011)

Timing: 2:3 (123 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

2011-02-15

Country

Australia, France, Iran

Production

Memento Films Production, Asghar Farhadi Productions, Dreamlab Films, MPA APSA Academy Film Fund

Genre

Drama

Budget

$500 000

Revenue

$22 926 076

Website

https://www.sonyclassics.com/aseparation/

Director

Asghar Farhadi

Actors

Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Sare Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Shahab Hosseini, Kimia Hosseini, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Babak Karimi, Merila Zarei, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh
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Scenario

Asghar Farhadi

Producer

Asghar Farhadi, Negar Eskandarfar

Operator

Mahmoud Kalari

Composer

Sattar Oraki

Artist

Audition

Editing

Hayedeh Safiyari
All team (13)

• The image of a man washing his father, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, was the first thing that came to director Asghar Farhadi's mind. He built the entire plot of the film around this image.
• The first film by an Iranian director to win a Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
• The first Iranian film to win an Academy Award.
• Practically the entire film was shot with a handheld camera.
• The news about Asghar Farhadi's film winning an «Oscar» was reported only once on Iranian television.
• In Iran, the film was released under the title «Nader and Simin: A Separation». The English title of the film retained only the word «Separation».
• The first film by an Iranian director to win a Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
• The first Iranian film to receive an Academy Award (Oscar).
• The news that Asghar Farhadi’s film had won an Academy Award (Oscar) was reported only once on Iranian television.
• In Iran, the film was released under the title “The Divorce of Nader and Simin.” The English title of the film retained only the word “Divorce.”