Il cerchio : The circle

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Label

Il cerchio : The circle

Title remainder

The circle

Statement of responsibility

con la partecipazione di Tele+ ; Jafar Panahi Film Productions, Mikado Film, Lumiere & Co. presentano ; un film di Jafar Panahi ; screenplay, Kambozia Partovi ; based on an original idea by Jafar Panahi ; produced and directed by Jafar Panahi

Title variation

Circle

Creator

• Dayereh (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Moradi, Khadije
• Ṣadr ʻIrfānī, Firishtah
• Shayegan, Maryam
• Naghavi, Fatemeh
• Panahi, Jafar
• Arab, Minou
• Partavī, Kāmbūzyā, 1955 or 1956-
• Faramarzi, Mojghan
• Tahmasabi, Maede
• Fox Lorber Films
• Jafar Panahi Film Productions
• Lumiere (Firm)
• Mikado Film
• Tele + (Firm)
• WinStar TV and Video (Firm)
• Almani, Maryam Parvin
• Panahi, Solmaz
• Ghadyani, Negar
• Mamizadeh, Nargess
• Saboktakin, Elham

Actor

• Ṣadr ʻIrfānī, Firishtah
• Almani, Maryam Parvin
• Arab, Minou
• Faramarzi, Mojghan
• Ghadyani, Negar
• Mamizadeh, Nargess
• Moradi, Khadije
• Naghavi, Fatemeh
• Panahi, Solmaz
• Saboktakin, Elham
• Shayegan, Maryam
• Tahmasabi, Maede

Screenwriter

• Partavī, Kāmbūzyā, 1955 or 1956-

Author

• Panahi, Jafar

Director

• Panahi, Jafar

Producer

• Panahi, Jafar

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Female friendship -- Drama
• Fiction films
• Foreign films
• Iran
• Islamic fundamentalism -- Social aspects -- Drama
• Loneliness -- Drama
• Persecution
• Prostitution -- Drama
• Tehran (Iran) -- Drama
• Tehran (Iran) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Drama
• Video recordings
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women -- Drama
• Women -- Iran -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Women -- Social conditions
• Women ex-convicts -- Drama
• Persecution -- Iran -- Drama
• Drama
• Feature films

Genre

• Feature films
• Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Foreign films
• Fiction films

Language

• per
• per
• eng
• per

Summary

A woman is afraid to tell her pregnant daughter's in-laws that the expected male child did not arrive--it is a girl instead. A group of women recently released from prison can't escape from being prisoners. A destitute mother tries to abandon the daughter she can't provide for. The police pick up a prostitute while her customers go free. In the fundamentalist theocracy of Iran, these women have all committed an eternal crime: being female. Surrounded by suffering and oppression, the world closes in on these women, limiting those choices that haven't already been made for them, along the narrow, tragic paths of Iranian womanhood

Awards note

Winner, 2000 Venice Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, Best Feature; Golden Lion; OCIC Award, Honorable Mention; Sergio Trasatti Award; UNICEF Award--Jafar Panahi.

Cataloging source

TEF

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Bahram Badakhshani ; camera, Amir Karimi, Mehrdad Lashgari ; editor, Jafar Panahi ; art director, Iraj Raminfar ; set decorator, Vajiollah Fariborzi

Date time place

Originally produced as an Iranian-Italian motion picture in 2000

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Language note

In Farsi with English subtitles; title frames and credits in Italian and English

PerformerNote

Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryam Parvin Almani, Mojghan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, Minou Arab, Maede Tahmasabi, Maryam Shayegan, Khadije Moradi, Negar Ghadyani, Solmaz Panahi, Fereshteh Sadr Orafai, Fatemeh Naghavi

Runtime

87

Target audience

general

Technique

live action