Iron island
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Iron island |
| Original title | Jazireh Ahani |
| Country of production | Iran |
| original language | Persian |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mohammad Rasoulof |
| script | Mohammad Rasoulof |
| production | Abolhassan Davudi |
| music | Mohammad Resa Aligholi |
| camera | Resa Jalali |
| cut | Bahram Dehghani |
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The Iron Island ( Persian جزیره آهنی, Dschasireh Ahani ) is an Iranian film from the year 2005 . Mohammad Rasoulof directed and wrote the screenplay for this ironic-grotesque drama. Ali Nasirian and Hossein Farsi-Sadeh played the main roles .
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In the Persian Gulf, a leaky freighter is bobbing somewhere off the coast to the Iranian mainland. While the captain tries to persuade the shipowner to give up the old tanker, the poorest of the poor have already occupied the boat. The “Iron Island” becomes a microcosm: teachers teach, funerals and weddings take place, children are born. The occupants of the ships crowd in front of an old television on the upper deck and watch “Titanic”. As the father of this strange company, however, the captain gradually sells parts of the ship. Because despite its inability to move, the tanker is heading for its sinking.
Main strand of the plot: Ahmad was rescued by Captain Nemat and entrusted with small jobs for money so that he could make something of himself. However, he is mainly interested in flirting and preoccupied with the difficulties that arise from it, such as fights with the brothers of the adored. When the captain marries the girl, Ahmad kidnaps the bride, but is captured. Since he does not immediately admit that he acted wrongly, he is punished - despite later pleading and begging during the ordeal to admit this after all - by diving into the sea until he falls into a coma. The captain justifies this by stating that discipline must be maintained. The ship is abandoned and land is bought. Ahmad is kept in a kind of home and visited by the girl. The film ends with a sequence that is supposed to describe the inner world of Ahmad: A little boy takes water from a puddle in his hands and walks with it to the ocean.
Reviews
US trade journal Variety : "A fast-paced fable full of original characters and highly entertaining moments, a cutting allegory on Iran."
Awards
The film was in 2005 Filmfest Hamburg awarded the Hamburg Film Critic.