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Completed - CZECH, ENGLISH-UNITED STATES - Thriller, Social issues, Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

An Iranian man, while investigating into his father’s youth in Prague, finds himself in the shoes of a third man who is almost dead and happens to be of Iranian origin.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2021 (Line up)
  • Pre-Cannes 2021 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2022 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2021

Director(s) : Ali MOSAFFA
Writer(s) : Ali MOSAFFA
Cast : Ali MOSAFFA, Zuzana STIVÍNOVÁ , Magdalena BOROVÁ, Petra NESVAČILOVÁ

Producer(s) : Ali MOSAFFA, Jordi NIUBÓ, Filip REMUNDA, Silvia SILVIA, Eric PANÁK

Synopsis

Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, away from his troubled family life in Tehran, and drowns himself instead, in a research about his father’s past as a communist expatriate in the former Czechoslovakia. Upon visiting the flat where his father used to live 50 years ago, he’s stopped by the police investigating a recent accident. The resident of the flat (Vladimir) has fallen from the window and his father’s name is identical to Rouzbeh’s. This can be no accident and he must accept that Vladimir is his own half brother. As he gets closer to the soul of Vladimir and discovers the hidden corners of his life, he learns a shocking fact about his father’s past, in total contrast to the hero he always admired. This directs him to a course of events identical to the one which brought Vladimir to his fall from the window.

Production

Country(ies) : CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA


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