The pear tree / Nima Pictures & Iranian Film Society presents a Mehrfaraz Film Production ; screenplay: Dariush Mehrjui and Goli Tarraghi ; producer: Dariush Mehrjui & Faramarz Farazmand ; directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
Title from container. Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shahbani-Nouri. Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Bonus features: director biography, photo gallery, scene selection.
Summary:
The film opens in a dark and drab contemporary setting but comes alive with light and color when Mahmoud remembers his childhood from the late 1940s, a time of respite for Iran before the political crises of the 1950s.
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