A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Taraneh Alidoosti
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Golshifteh Farahani
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Juliette Binoche
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Leila Hatami
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Zar Amir Ebrahimi
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Hedie Tehrani
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Pegah Ahangarani
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Baran Kosari
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Tannaz Tabatabaei
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Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
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