The Circle (2000 film)
- Nargess Mamizadeh - Nargess
- Maryiam Palvin Almani - Arezou
- Mojgan Faramarzi - prostitutes
- Elham Saboktakin - Nurse
- Solmaz Panahi - Solmaz
- Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy - Pari
- Fatemeh Naghavi - Mother
The circle (Persian دايره, Dayereh ) is an Iranian film director Jafar Panahi from the year 2000.
Action
The film takes place in Tehran. It tells the story of several women whose paths cross in the course of the film.
In a hospital, a child is born. The grandmother of this child learns that it was a girl, even though it was established during pregnancy, it would be a boy. She fears for her daughter's life, the family of the father conceals the news and disappears from the hospital.
On the road, she runs into two women who have been released from prison. Watch her friend who wants to sell a necklace to go with the money after their hometown far away from Tehran can. But the venture fails and she is arrested.
Your two friends are now looking for another way to get the money. But a woman can not travel without her husband's consent. Only one student is expected to take the bus to their home alone. But Nargess can not identify themselves.
She is looking at her friend Pari, she also knows from prison. Pari is pregnant escaped from prison and fled now out of the house of her father, to escape the vengeance of the brothers. She wants an abortion, but can not find a doctor, because it requires the permission of the father for abortion. She is now four months pregnant and last hope is to be a former inmate who works as a nurse and is now married to a Pakistani doctor.
Outside the hospital, Pari observed a mother with her finely decked out little daughter. The mother leaves her child and hopes that a good family to receive. She has tried this three times, but never had the heart. This time it succeeds, and the girl is handed over to the police.
The woman is left alone, is taken over by a car and drives away, but the driver turns out to be a police officer. When they come to a traffic stop, she gets out and makes the investigation of a man who was with a prostitute. The suitor may continue ultimately, but the prostitute goes to jail.
Already in the cell, she meets the other women in history. The jailer closes the light shutter, and it is dark. The circle is now closed.
Background
The film had its world premiere on 6 September 2000, as a contribution of the competition at the International Film Festival in Venice. In Germany the film was released in theaters in September 2001. In Iran, the film could only be shown in two private screenings and is prohibited ever since.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film: A day in the lives of six young women in Tehran who are trying to break out of the woman discriminatory provisions that begin at birth. The costs associated to the type of a loose round dance fates are unobtrusive, realistic and emotionally captivating staged, even though the director criticized the states only indirectly.
Awards
The film was awarded in 2000 at the International Film Festival in Venice, the Golden Lion. At the festival he was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize, the Sergio Trasatti Award and the UNICEF prize more prestigious awards. On the Film Festival of San Sebastian a year later he was awarded the Grand Prix de la FIPRESCI ( film of the year ).