

Absence
2023-11-30 · 100 min · ★ 6.5
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a communist expatriate, lived 50 years ago, in the times of Czechoslovakia, he is stopped by a policewoman investigating a recent accident. The current resident of the flat, Vladimir, who turns out to be Rouzbeh’s half-brother, has fallen out the window. Discovering hidden corners of Vladimir’s life and getting closer to his soul, Rouzbeh learns a shocking truth about his father, totally contradicting the image of a hero he had about him. This puts him on the path which led to Vladimir's fall from the window.
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- Directors
- Ali Mosaffa
- Production companies
- Ali Mosaffa Productions, i/o post, Arina
- Countries
- Czech Republic, Iran, Slovakia
- Status
- Released
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Ali MosaffaRouzbeh
Leila Hatami
Zuzana Stivínová
Klára Melíšková
Zuzana Kronerová
Magdaléna Borová
Petra Nesvačilová
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