Under the Skin of the City (2001)
Zir-e poost-e shahr
92 min
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.
- Release date
- May 25, 2005
- Country of origin
- Iran
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Cast
- Mohammad Reza Forutan as Abbas
- Golab Adineh as Tuba
- Baran Kosari as Mahboubeh
- Ebrahim Sheibani as Ali
- Mohsen Ghazi Moradi as Mahmoud the Father
- Mehraveh Sharifinia as Masoumeh
- Homeira Riazi as Hamideh
- Alireza Osivand as Nasser Khan
- Ahmad Yavari Shad
- Mehrdad Falahatgar as Marandi
- Maryam Boubani as Masoumeh's Mother
Crew
- Rakhshan Banietemad · Director
- Rakhshan Banietemad · Writer
- Farid Mostafavi · Writer
- Rakhshan Banietemad · Producer
- Jahangir Kosari · Producer
- Hossein Jafarian · Cinematographer
- Mostafa Kherghehpoosh · Editor
- Omid Mohit · Production designer