The Salesman

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Movie
German title The Salesman
Original title فروشنده Forūšande
Country of production Iran
original language Farsi
Publishing year 2016
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Asghar Farhadi
script Asghar Farhadi
production Asghar Farhadi,
Alexandre Mallet-Guy
music Sattar Oraki
camera Hossein Jafarian
cut Hayedeh Safiyari
occupation

The Salesman (Original title: Persisch فروشنده Forūšande ) is an Oscar-winning drama by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi from 2016 .

action

The young couple Emad and Rana have to leave their house in a hurry, as it is in danger of collapsing due to excavation work on the neighboring property. Emad is a popular teacher and, along with Rana, is a member of a theater group that performs the play Death of a Salesman. Babak, a friend from her drama group, offers them an apartment. The previous tenant has kept her household items in the apartment because she has not yet found anything new; despite the insistence of the couple at Babak's, she doesn't pick him up. Emad learns from neighbors that she is a woman who has received constant visits from men.

One day after the doorbell rings, Rana opens the door, assuming it is her husband, and goes into the bathroom. When Emad actually comes home, he finds a trail of blood in the bathroom and learns that Rana is in the clinic. She was attacked by a man who she cannot describe. The head injury sustained turns out to be not serious, but Rana suffers badly psychologically and does not want to stay alone in the apartment. That is why she wants to continue taking part in the theater performances, but then has to be represented by the director. It is believed that the perpetrator was a suitor who did not know that the prostitute had moved out. As she no longer wants to tell the police what happened, Rana refuses to file a complaint.

Instead, Emad tries to find the culprit himself. After the crime, he left behind money, his mobile phone and the car keys of a pickup truck . After the car disappears, Emad finds it with the driver of a bakery. By giving him a transport job, Emad tries to lure him into his old apartment. Instead, his future father-in-law appears, a short, older man. It turns out that he is also using the transporter. After Emad discovers his foot injury, he finally has to admit that he was the one who injured Rana. According to his statements, he had been asked several times by the previous resident to help her with the van. The act was due to his excitement until he realized that it was another woman. Emad locks him in a room and comes back with Rana the next day. The man has meanwhile suffered a heart attack; but when you give him his pills, he feels better again. Emad wants to inform the rushing family about the relationship between the man and the prostitute - especially the wife of the man, with whom he has been married for over 30 years and who loves him very much - in order to expose and punish him. Rana implores him not to take revenge and threatens to end their relationship. Emad gives in, but gives the man the money that he left behind after the crime as a kind of compensation, which he cannot accept. In the stairwell, the broken man suffers another heart attack and the family calls an ambulance.

background

In protest against Donald Trump's decree 13769 , the filmmakers, despite their nomination for best foreign language film, did not attend the Academy Awards .

Reviews

Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts saw a "highly complex, precisely observed and also incredibly exciting moral piece". As in Death of a Salesman about “life lies and how they destroy a family”, in this film too “deeper conflicts are dragged to the surface”. In the end, a “moral dilemma” emerges that “makes it very difficult to draw clear lines between right and wrong”.

Awards (selection)

The film received numerous foreign awards and nominations and was very well received by critics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Salesman . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Review on Filmstarts.de , accessed on February 13, 2017.