Offside (film)

Movie
German title	Offside
Original title	Offside
Country of production	Iran
original language	Persian
Publishing year	2006
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Jafar Panahi
script	Jafar Panahi , Shadmehr Rastin
production	Jafar Panahi
music	Korosh Bozorgpour
camera	Mahmood Kalari
cut	Jafar Panahi
occupation
Simar Mobarak Shahi - First girl Safar Samandar - soldier from Azerbaijan Shayesteh Irani - Smoking girl M. Kheyrabadi - soldier from Mashhad Ida Sadeghi - soccer player Golnaz Farmani - Woman with Schador Mahnaz Zabihi - female soldier Nazanin Sedighzadeh - Young girl M. Kheymed Kabood - soldier from Tehran Mohsen Tanabandeh - ticket seller Reza Farhadi - old man MR Gharadaghi - boy with firecrackers

The Iranian film Offside ( Persian آفساید) by Jafar Panahi plays on the sidelines of the decisive international football match of the Iranian national team for qualifying for the 2006 World Cup against Bahrain in the Iranian capital Tehran . The storyline is about some women and girls who want to watch the game live in the stadium. The film was released in German theaters on June 22, 2006. The film was banned in Iran.

action

In Iran, women and girls are forbidden to watch a football match in the football stadium. The film takes place on the sidelines of the decisive qualifying match of the Iranian national soccer team for the soccer world cup 2006. Some women and girls dress up as boys in order to get into the stadium forbidden. They are discovered and arrested. Soldiers doing their army service guard the women on the edge of the stadium.

Talks develop between the women and men involved, in which aspects of Iranian society are highlighted. In particular, topics such as military service and the role of Iranian women regulated by traditional laws are critically discussed.

Reviews

“A skilful and atmospherically close to the interface of documentary impressions and staged episodes moving, explosive and committed“ soccer film ”with the subversive message that the Iranian people's zest for life cannot be restrained by political and religious restrictions in the long run. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• Silver Bear (Grand Jury Prize) at the Berlinale 2006
• nominated at the Satellite Awards 2007 in the category Best Foreign Film

Web links

• Offside in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Offside atrotten tomatoes(English)
• About the film - Berlinale film archive (PDF; 130 kB)
• Trailer on kino-zeit.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Offside (2006 / I) - Trivia
2. ↑ Offside. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 14, 2017 .