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Daughters of the Sun

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While working as a weaver for a cruel master, an Iranian woman (Altinay Ghelich Taghani) develops a friendship with a despondent co-worker.

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V.A. Musetto New York Post 07/29/2004
3/4
Beautiful and bleak. Go to Full Review Dave Kehr New York Times 07/29/2004
2/5
This ponderous, relentlessly grim Iranian film is about an adolescent girl who must disguise herself as a boy in order to survive. Go to Full Review Laura Sinagra Village Voice 07/27/2004
The filmmaker achieves the desired sense of remoteness and claustrophobic doom, and though the story could be told more economically, her slow approach conveys the distended chronology that attends an indentured servitude resembling slavery. Go to Full Review David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor 07/29/2004
4/4
Acted as a drama, paced like a ritual, filmed as a slice of rural Iranian life. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Maryam Shahriar

Director

Altinay Ghelich Taghani

Amangol

Soghra Karimi

Actor

Zahra Mohammadi

Actor

Habib Haddad

Actor

Maryam Shahriar

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Synopsis While working as a weaver for a cruel master, an Iranian woman (Altinay Ghelich Taghani) develops a friendship with a despondent co-worker.
Director
Maryam Shahriar
Producer
Jahangir Kosari
Screenwriter
Maryam Shahriar
Distributor
Facets
Production Co
Farabi Cinema Foundation
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Persian
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 29, 2000, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Dec 28, 2004
Runtime
1h 45m