The Hidden Half (2001)
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
Director: Tahmine Milani
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Niki Karimi as Fereshteh |
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Mohammad Nikbin as Roozbeh Javid |
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Atila Pesyani as Husband |
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Akbar Moazezi as Mr. Rastegar |
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Afarin Obeisi as |
| Art | Iraj Raminfar | Production Design |
| Sound | Parviz Abnar | Sound Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mehri Shirazi | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Massoud Behnam | Sound mixer |
| Sound | Amir Moini | Music |
| Editing | Bahram Dehghani | Editor |
| Production | Mohammad Nikbin | Producer |
| Directing | Tahmine Milani | Director |
| Camera | Mahmoud Kalari | Director of Photography |
| Production | Tahmine Milani | Producer |
| Writing | Tahmine Milani | Writer |