The Salesman (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Asghar Farhadi |
| Produced by | Alexandre Mallet-Guy Asghar Farhadi |
| Written by | Asghar Farhadi |
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Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti |
| Music by | Sattar Oraki |
| Cinematography | Hossein Jafarian |
| Edited by | Hayedeh Safiyari |
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Memento Films Production
Asghar Farhadi Production Arte France Cinéma |
| Distributed by | Filmiran (Iran) Memento Films Distribution (France) |
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125 minutes |
| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
| Box office | 16.1 billion toman (Iran) |
The Salesman (Persian: فروشنده, translit. Forušande) is a 2016 Iranian drama film directed and written by Asghar Farhadi and starring Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. It is about a married couple who perform Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman on stage, when the wife is assaulted. Her husband attempts to determine the identity of the attacker, while she struggles to cope with post-trauma stress. Farhadi chose Miller's play as his story within a story based on shared themes. The film was shot in Tehran, beginning in 2015.
The film premiered in competition in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards — Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Hosseini. The Salesman went on to receive more positive reviews, and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. However, Farhadi did not attend the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in protest of the U.S. Executive Order 13769.
Emad and Rana are a married couple who both work in the theatre, currently starring in a production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, with Emad portraying Willy Loman and Rana playing Linda. Emad is also a popular instructor at the school, where the youth joke about him being a "Salesman." One night, their apartment begins to collapse and they flee the building with the other residents. Desperate to find a place to live, their fellow actor Babak secures another apartment for them, where a female tenant has just moved out. One night, Rana is home alone and begins bathing. When Emad returns, he finds she is missing and the bathroom is covered with blood. He rushes to the hospital, where he is told to change the apartment locks. It becomes apparent Rana has not had an accident, but has been assaulted by an intruder. Emad also learns from neighbours that the previous tenant was a prostitute, and that she had many conflicts with past clients.
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