SHEKARCHI
The Hunter
Iran/Germany
2010
92 minutes
After his wife and child are lost in a shootout during a political rally, an ex-con kills two policemen and runs away into the forest. Well-meaning but non-descript drama whose alleged reflection of the Iranian political events of the Summer of 2009 gets lost in an insufficiently scripted and turgidly handled revenge melodrama.
A Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion presentation/production, in co-production with Aftab Negarian Film Productions, Pallas Film, ZDF; in cooperation with ARTE; with the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, World Cinema Fund. (International distribution, The Match Factory.)
Starring Mitra Hajjar, Rafi Pitts, Ali Nicksaulat, Hassan Ghalenoi.
Directed and written by Mr. Pitts; produced by Thanassis Karathanos; director of photography (colour), Mohammad Davudi; art director, Malik Khazai; film editor, Hassan Hassandoost.
Screened: Berlin Film Festival advance press screening, Cinemaxx 7 (Berlin), February 16th 2010.
Iran/Germany
2010
92 minutes
After his wife and child are lost in a shootout during a political rally, an ex-con kills two policemen and runs away into the forest. Well-meaning but non-descript drama whose alleged reflection of the Iranian political events of the Summer of 2009 gets lost in an insufficiently scripted and turgidly handled revenge melodrama.
A Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion presentation/production, in co-production with Aftab Negarian Film Productions, Pallas Film, ZDF; in cooperation with ARTE; with the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, World Cinema Fund. (International distribution, The Match Factory.)
Starring Mitra Hajjar, Rafi Pitts, Ali Nicksaulat, Hassan Ghalenoi.
Directed and written by Mr. Pitts; produced by Thanassis Karathanos; director of photography (colour), Mohammad Davudi; art director, Malik Khazai; film editor, Hassan Hassandoost.
Screened: Berlin Film Festival advance press screening, Cinemaxx 7 (Berlin), February 16th 2010.
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