Border Café (2005)
A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.
Director: Kambuzia Partovi
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Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee as Reyhan |
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Parviz Parastouei as Nasser |
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Nikos Papadopoulos as Zakario |
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Svieta Mikalishina as Svieta |
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Vantzos Konstantinos as |
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Esmail Soltanian as Oujan |
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Esmail Soltanian as Karim |
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Rana Karmanshahi as Leila |
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Zahra Jalilzadeh as Sara |
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Mehtab Talebi as Zoleykhah |
| Camera | Mohammad Reza Sokout | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Kambuzia Partovi | Director |
| Writing | Kambuzia Partovi | Writer |
| Sound | Peyman Yazdanian | Music |
| Sound | Ali Birang | Music |
| Editing | Jafar Panahi | Editor |
| Editing | Jacques Witta | Editor |