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A House Built on Water (2002)

A House Built on Water (2002)

Drama

The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity

Release Date: 2002, April 1
Directors: Bahman Farmanara
Countries: Iran
Cast: Bita Farrahi, Behnaz Jafari, Reza Kianian, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Hedie Tehrani, Shabnam Toloui, Ezzatollah Entezami, Roya Nownahali, Hossein Kasbian, Valiyollah Shirandami

Overview:

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.