A Separation
- Leila Hatami: Simin
- Peyman Moadi: Nader
- Shahab Hosseini: Hodjat
- Sareh Bayat: Razieh
- Sarina Farhadi: Termeh
- Babak Karimi: Judge
- Ali Asghar Shahbazi: Nader's father
- Shirin Yazdanbakhsh: SimIns mother
- Kimia Hosseini: Somayeh
- Merila Zarei: Miss Ghahraei
Nader and Simin - A Separation (. Persian جدایی نادر از سیمین Dschodai Nader az Simin -ye, German translation Separation of Nader from Simin, English Festival Title: Nader and Simin, A Separation ) is a feature film by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi from the year 2011. the drama is based on an original screenplay by Farhadi, who also took over the production and his daughter began as an actress. It tells the relationship between two Iranian families who comes from the higher educated middle class one, the other from the religious underclass.
The film premiered on 9 February 2011 at the International Fajr Film Festival in Tehran. In Germany, it was first shown on 15 February 2011 at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where the film won the Golden Bear was the first Iranian contribution. This was followed by more than 40 film and festival awards, including the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The German theatrical release on July 14, 2011.
Action
Nader and Simin have been married for 14 years and live with their eleven year old daughter Termeh in Tehran. The family belongs to the urban upper middle class. The couple is on the verge of separation. Simin wants as originally planned jointly and successfully sought from the authorities to leave the country with her husband and daughter. Termeh should not continue " under the circumstances here," grow up. Meanwhile SimIns intentions are not shared by the more stubborn Nader. He has. Concerns about his father, who suffers from Alzheimer's, and lives with in the shared apartment In response to Nader's decision to stay with his father in Iran, Simin goes for divorce.
The family court rejects SimIns from suit, the problems are considered by the judge not serious enough, according to Iranian law, the husband of the divorce must therefore agree. To this end, Nader is from disappointment and defiance also prepared in principle wants Termeh but do not let go with Simin. Simin then leaves her husband and daughter and moves in with her mother. Therefore Nader committed the chosen of his estranged wife Razieh as a domestic help. The young pregnant woman from a poor suburbs of Tehran during the day to look after his father of care. Razieh does the work for little reward, as their family is financially dependent on it, but have to give without the knowledge of her irascible unemployed husband Hodjat, which would have its consent under Iranian law. For their work, the God-fearing, always wrapped in a chador woman brings her young daughter, Somayeh, with.
Razieh is overwhelmed with the care of the elderly, however. Above all, it is uncertain whether it is permissible for her on religious grounds, to wash the older man who also suffers from incontinence. After the first day, she wants to give the place to her husband. Because of this, however, is prevented because of its debts with creditors, they represent him. When Razieh one day must perceive a doctor's appointment, she bound the sleeping old man on his bed, and includes him. The old man is found later in the day lying unconscious by Nader and his daughter next to the bed. Enraged, Nader urges his returning home help from the home and scolds them a thief. He shoves Razieh out the front door, whereupon the latter falls in the stairwell. Later, he learns that she was treated in hospital and has lost her unborn son in the fifth month.
A court is charged with the review of Nader's fault. It looks forward to a charge of manslaughter, should be proved that he had knowledge of Raziehs pregnancy. At the same time Razieh is accused of mistreatment of the Old Man's. The indebted Hodjat is torn between the required for Nader in prison and a financial settlement, he should drop the charges. Nader's pride, however, is the payment of blood money in the way. Termeh protects her father with a false statement while Simin contributes outside the court with the truth. It turns out that Razieh, who refuses to blame Nader to swear on the Koran, had been hit before the incident on the road, as if to retrieve Nader's demented father again, who had silently left the house.
Termehs hope that their parents get back together, is not fulfilled. Before the Family Court she must decide if she wants to live with Nader or Simin from now on.
Reviews
The film was marketed by the German criticism as a favorite to win the main prize at the Berlinale.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung remarked that it was hard to believe that the jury could pass on the film. " Farhadi has the individual strands of its history so intertwined in his script that it seems she is only just unfolding before our eyes and we would witness as it begins to draw circles and eventually forms a loop, no escape from the more can. " Jodaeiye Nader az Simin to draw about Elly ( Best Director Award at the 2009 Berlinale ) by as already Farhadi's previous film " of ability to observations of everyday life. " Farhadi tell " perfect to the point" of the " importance of the political" in private, " without the political background to name ever," the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Similar noticed the daily newspaper, which also praised lead actor Peyman Moadi. Jodaeiye Nader az Simin make " the twisted moral and legal views of any neurotic system significantly. Arbitrariness and chance decide on happiness or unhappiness of individuals. "
The Frankfurter Rundschau noticed Jodaeiye Nader az Simin was a " well played, and - apart from a screenplay weakness - well-made film " and crowd favorite. All too obvious either, why the Iranian censorship would have filed for the Festival him: " A wise judge and patient cops, not exercise the slightest pressure of a dictatorship are not bad. No doubt, the film evokes the legal system of a state that imprisons its critics. " As " precisely drawn ( n ) nightmare, " the Panahi further write open letter to the Berlinale Start, rated him the time. The " high point " of the contest tell of gender conflict and class antagonisms, and is " just as grand as dismaying. A chamber play, in which the whole place has Iran ".
The U.S. review service Rotten Tomatoes counted less than 141 reviews on only a negative, with an average rating of 8.9 out of 10 possible points.
Awards
At the International Fajr Film Festival Nader and Simin was - excellent Separation among other things with the prices for best director and best screenplay. As part of the Berlinale, the film won the Golden Bear at the Grand Prize of the Festival and the Silver Bear for the best male and female ensemble cast, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the reader Jury Prize of the Berliner Morgenpost. For the first time in the history of the Berlinale, the main prize and both performer awards were therefore awarded to a film production. More awards followed in the same year at the Durban International Film Festival ( Best Picture ), the Fukuoka International Film Festival ( Audience Award ), the Melbourne International Film Festival ( " Most Popular Feature Film " ), the Pula Film Festival ( International Competition - Best Film ), Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia- San Sebastián ( " TVE Otra Mirada Award" ), Sydney film Festival ( Best Film ) and Yerevan International Film Festival ( Best Film ).
At the Academy Awards in 2012 won Nader and Simin - A separation of the first Iranian candidate an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film. He has also received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. 2011/12 voted the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, the National Society of Film Critics and Broadcast Film Critics Association Nader and Simin each for best foreign or foreign-language film. 2012 the film won the Golden Globe Award and the César for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the London Critics ' Circle Film Awards in the categories Best Foreign Language Film and Best Screenplay.