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Sara [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Dariush Mehrjui.

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Irmovies.com, [2009].

Women -- Iran -- Social conditions -- Drama.

Marriage -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (102 min.) : Dolby digital sd. ; col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the play, "Et dukkehjem" (aka "A doll's house") written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879.

Originally released as a motion picture in Iran in 1994.

Special features: Birector's bio ; photo gallery.

In Persian with English subtitles.

Nima Pictures & Iranian Film Society ; producer, Hashem Seifi & Darush Mehrjui ; written & directed by Dariush Mehrjui.

Niki Karimi, Yasman Malek-Nasr, Khosro Shakibai and Amin Tarokh.

"Ibsen's 19th Century classic play A Doll's House is closely adapted and set in modern Iran in this unique Iranian drama. This version is set in a wealthy Tehran home and in Sara's husbands Hessam's bank. Outwardly Sara is the perfect submissive Moslem wife, but to her friend Simi she confides that she took out a loan 10 years ago from Goshtasb to help pay for her husband's medical expenses. To repay her debt, she embroiders wedding gowns. When Hessam threatens to fire Goshtasb, his bank manager, for faking a signature, Goshtasb threatens to retaliate by telling Hessam of the loan. Simi, hoping it will spare her former lover's job, thinks Hessam deserves to hear the truth and does not stop Goshtasb. Hessam is not grateful and begins to bully the bank manager. Sara watches her world fall to dust, but then awakens to her own rights."--Container.

Audience Award: Nantes Three Continents, 1994.

Feminist films.

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Dukkehjem. English.

Mihrjūʾī, Dāriyūsh.

Karīmī, Nīkī.

Maleknasr, Yassamin.

Shakībāyī, Khusraw, 1944 or 1945-

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