A House Built on Water
خانه ای روی آب
Release: 2002-04-01
·Runtime: 111m
·★ 7.2
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Production Countries
Iran
Cast
Jamshid Mashayekhi
as Dr. Latifian
Bita Farrahi
as Mrs. Taleghani
Ahmad Yavari Shad
Reza Kianian
as Dr. Reza Sepidbakht
Qasem Zare
Maryam Boubani
Ezzatollah Entezami
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
Behnaz Jafari
as Mojgan Ahadi
Roya Nownahali
as Mrs. Mohammadi
Shabnam Toloui
as Secretary
Hossein Kasbian
as Jale's father
Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
Hedie Tehrani
as Jale Tirandaz
Mehran Rajabi
Valiyollah Shirandami
as Mr. Shiri
