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Iron Island

2005-10-05 · 86 min · ★ 7.1

Drama

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

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Directors
Mohammad Rasoulof
Production companies
Sheherazad Media International, Farabi Cinema
Countries
Iran
Status
Released

Top Cast

Ali NasirianAli NasirianCaptain Nemat
Hossein Farzi-ZadehHossein Farzi-ZadehAhmad
Neda PakdamanGolpar Salehi

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