A House Built on Water (Khanei ruye ab) (2002)
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Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks… More Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers. A House Built on Water won first prize at the 2002 Fajr Film Festival in Tehran. ~ Tom Vick, Rovi
- Directed By
- Bahman Farmanara
- Genres
- Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 2002 Wide
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Cast
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Reza Kianian
as Dr. Reza Sepidbakht
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Ezatollah Entezami
as Father
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Mehdi Safavi
as Mani
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Hedye Tehrani
as Secretary
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Bita Farahi
as Head Nurse
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Behnaz Jafari
as Girl With AIDS
- Ezzatolah Entezami
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Shabnam Toloui
