Dame sobh (2005)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Hamid Rahmanian

Writers:

Mehran Kashani (writer)
Hamid Rahmanian (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which...

Cast

Hosein Yari	...	Mansour
Zabi Afshar	...	Hashem
Hoda Nasseh	...	Atifeh
Atash Taghipour	...	Father
Maryam Amirjallali	...	Mother

Also Known As:

Day Break (USA) (DVD box title)

Runtime:

Canada:84 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

Iran

Language:

Persian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:12

Company:

Prometheus Cinema

Amazing!

Very interesting story and subject matter. The movie received a bunch of awards, all well deserved. It's an introspective, intense, dramatic, heartfelt...and very original movie. It's about a man who waits to receive his capital punishment, but the family of his victim never shows up on D-Day (a condition required by Islamic law). I never knew about this condition before i saw this film. I think it's a very fair way of dealing with crimes and criminals. If only the US could take this film as an example!! So basically this man awaits his death sentence that seems to never come...and the movie is about the agony he goes through in his mind, as he waits to die. An intense movie with phenomenal acting from the main character.