A House Built on Water

A House Built on Water (2002)

Drama

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.

Director: Bahman Farmanara

Casts

	Reza Kianian as Dr. Reza Sepidbakht
	Hedie Tehrani as Jale Tirandaz
	Ezzatollah Entezami as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
	Jamshid Mashayekhi as Dr. Latifian
	Bita Farrahi as Mrs. Taleghani
	Behnaz Jafari as Mojgan Ahadi
	Roya Nownahali as Mrs. Mohammadi
	Shabnam Toloui as Secretary
	Hossein Kasbian as Jale's father
	Mohsen Ghazi Moradi as
	Mehran Rajabi as
	Qasem Zare as
	Maryam Boubani as
	Valiyollah Shirandami as Mr. Shiri
	Ahmad Yavari Shad as

Crew