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The Mare

The Mare

1986 1h 48m

Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mostly by Taslimi's increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter's freedom.

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Synopsis

Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mostly by Taslimi's increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter's freedom.

Behind it

Ali ZhekanAli ZhekanDirectorSharif LotfiComposerFirooz MalekzadehCinematography

Cast

Susan TaslimiSusan TaslimiRezvaneh
Hossein MahjoubHossein MahjoubRahmat
Firouz Behjat-MohamadiGhodrat
Ataollah ZahedNooragha
Farhad KhanmohammadiAghbay
Maliheh NazariHalimeh
Mojilong DanespooyGolbooteh
Parvin HazratiRobabeh
Parviz ShahinkhouParviz ShahinkhouBagher

Director

Ali Zhekan

Writer

Ali Zhekan

Release date

1 Jan 1986

Runtime

1h 48m

Language

Persian

Country

Iran

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