About Elly
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| Directed by | Asghar Farhadi |
| Produced by | Asghar Farhadi |
| Written by | Asghar Farhadi (screenplay) Azad Jafarian (thanks to) |
| Starring |
Golshifteh Farahani Taraneh Alidoosti Shahab Hosseini Mani Haghighi Merila Zarei Peyman Moaadi Ahmad Mehranfar Rana Azadivar Saber Abar |
| Cinematography | Hossein Jafarian |
| Edited by | Hayedeh Safiyari |
| Distributed by | Dreamlab Films (international) Axiom Films (UK and Ireland) |
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119 minutes |
| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
| Budget | $1،350،000 |
| Box office | $7,000,000 |
About Elly (Persian: درباره الی, translit. Dar bāre-ye Elly) is a 2009 Iranian drama film directed by Asghar Farhadi. It is the fourth film by Farhadi. The film is about the relationships between some middle class families in Iran.
Farhadi won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival for the film. The film was also nominated for 10 awards at the 27th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran where Farhadi won the Crystal Simorgh for best directing. About Elly was Iran's official submission for the competition in the Foreign Film section at the 82nd Academy Awards.
A group of middle-class Iranian friends travels to the shores of the Caspian Sea on a three-day vacation. They are former classmates at the law faculty of the university. There are three couples: Sepideh and her husband Amir, who have a young daughter; Shohreh and her husband Peymān, who have two young children, including a son, Arash; and Nāzy and her husband Manuchehr. The trip is planned by Sepideh, who brings along her daughter's kindergarten teacher, Elly, in order to introduce her to Ahmad, a divorced friend, visiting from Germany.
They all go to a seaside mansion that Sepideh has booked, but the woman in charge tells them that the owners are due to return the next day, so they won't be able to stay there after all. She suggests that they stay in a deserted beach-front villa instead. There would be no cellphone reception there and they would have to go to the old woman's house in order to make calls. Sepideh lies to the old woman about the relationship between Elly and Ahmad: she says they're married and are there for their honeymoon (referencing legal restrictions on unmarried couples traveling together in Iran).
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