A House Built on Water (2002)
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The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity
108 min
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.
- Release date
- April 1, 2002
- Country of origin
- Iran
- Music
- Ahmad Pezhman
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Cast
- Reza Kianian as Dr. Reza Sepidbakht
- Hediyeh Tehrani as Jale Tirandaz
- Ezzatolah Entezami as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
- Jamshid Mashayekhi as Dr. Latifian
- Bita Farahi as Mrs. Taleghani
- Behnaz Jafari as Mojgan Ahadi
- Roya Nonahali as Mrs. Mohammadi
- Shabnam Tolouei as Secretary
- Hossein Kasbian as Jale's father
- Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
- Mehran Rajabi
- Ghasem Zare
- Maryam Boubani
- Valiyollah Shirandami as Mr. Shiri
- Ahmad Yavari Shad
Crew
- Bahman Farmanara · Director
- Bahman Farmanara · Writer
- Bahman Farmanara · Producer
- Ahmad Pezhman · Composer
- Mahmoud Kalari · Cinematographer
- Abbas Ganjavi · Editor
- Zhila Mehrjui · Production designer