Iron Island (2005)
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?
Director:
Mohammad Rasoulof
Writer:
Mohammad Rasoulof
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Ali Nasirian as Captain Nemat |
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Hossein Farzi-Zadeh as Ahmad |
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Neda Pakdaman as Golpar Salehi |
| Directing | Mohammad Rasoulof | Director |
| Sound | Mohammad Mosavi-Nejad | Sound |
| Camera | Reza Jalali | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Mohammad Rasoulof | Screenplay |
| Production | Abolhassan Davoodi | Producer |
| Sound | Mahmood Moosavinejad | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Mohammad Rasoulof | Producer |
| Sound | Mohammadreza Aligholi | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Mohamad Mokhtari | Sound |
| Editing | Bahram Dehghani | Editor |
| Production | Bita Mansoory | Executive Producer |
| Art | Mohammad Rasoulof | Production Design |