Il cerchio = The circle / con la partecipazione di Tele+ ; Jafar Panahi Film Productions, Mikado Film, Lumiere & Co. presentano ; un film di Jafar Panahi ; screenplay, Kambozia Partovi ; based on an original idea by Jafar Panahi ; produced and directed by Jafar Panahi.

A woman is afraid to tell her pregnant daughter's in-laws that the expected male child did not arrive--it is a girl instead. A group of women recently released from prison can't escape from being prisoners. A destitute mother tries to abandon the daughter she can't provide for. The police pick up a...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Dayereh (Motion picture)
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Main Author: Panahi, Jafar (Author, Director, Producer)
Corporate Authors: Tele + (Firm)
Jafar Panahi Film Productions
Mikado Film
Lumiere (Firm)
Fox Lorber Films
WinStar TV and Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Partavī, Kāmbūzyā, 1955 or 1956- (Screenwriter)
Mamizadeh, Nargess (Actor)
Almani, Maryam Parvin (Actor)
Faramarzi, Mojghan (Actor)
Saboktakin, Elham (Actor)
Arab, Minou (Actor)
Tahmasabi, Maede (Actor)
Shayegan, Maryam (Actor)
Moradi, Khadije (Actor)
Ghadyani, Negar (Actor)
Panahi, Solmaz (Actor)
Ṣadr ʻIrfānī, Firishtah (Actor)
Naghavi, Fatemeh (Actor)
Language:Persian
English
Language of the Original:
Persian
Language and/or Writing System:
In Farsi with English subtitles; title frames and credits in Italian and English.
Published: New York : Distributed by Winstar TV & Video, [2001], ©2001.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Women > Drama.
Loneliness > Drama.
Female friendship > Drama.
Women ex-convicts > Drama.
Prostitution > Drama.
Persecution > Iran > Drama.
Women > Iran > Social conditions > Drama.
Islamic fundamentalism > Social aspects > Drama.
Tehran (Iran) > Drama.
Tehran (Iran) > Social life and customs > 21st century > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Local Note:
MSU: Gift of MSU Women's Resource Center.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Circle. [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
A woman is afraid to tell her pregnant daughter's in-laws that the expected male child did not arrive--it is a girl instead. A group of women recently released from prison can't escape from being prisoners. A destitute mother tries to abandon the daughter she can't provide for. The police pick up a prostitute while her customers go free. In the fundamentalist theocracy of Iran, these women have all committed an eternal crime: being female. Surrounded by suffering and oppression, the world closes in on these women, limiting those choices that haven't already been made for them, along the narrow, tragic paths of Iranian womanhood.
Note:Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.I65 C55 2001 VideoDVD
AJ7 D0014158 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Awards:Winner, 2000 Venice Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, Best Feature; Golden Lion; OCIC Award, Honorable Mention; Sergio Trasatti Award; UNICEF Award--Jafar Panahi.
ISBN:0794201490
9780794201494
Credits:Director of photography, Bahram Badakhshani ; camera, Amir Karimi, Mehrdad Lashgari ; editor, Jafar Panahi ; art director, Iraj Raminfar ; set decorator, Vajiollah Fariborzi.
System Details:DVD.
Cast:
Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryam Parvin Almani, Mojghan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, Minou Arab, Maede Tahmasabi, Maryam Shayegan, Khadije Moradi, Negar Ghadyani, Solmaz Panahi, Fereshteh Sadr Orafai, Fatemeh Naghavi.
Event Details:
Originally produced as an Iranian-Italian motion picture in 2000.