A Separation (2011) on Netflix
Nader refuses to leave Tehran, where his father, who has Alzheimer's, needs him. His wife Simin wants to emigrate for their daughter Termeh, and asks a court to end the marriage.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Simin has the visas ready and wants the family to leave Iran. Nader will not go, because his father, who has Alzheimer's disease and shares their flat, needs him at home. Simin asks a family court to end the marriage, but the judges find her reasons too weak. She returns to her parents' home, and Termeh stays with Nader. Nader hires Razieh, a devout woman from a distant, poor suburb, to watch his father through the day. Razieh brings her young daughter, Somayeh, and is four months pregnant.
Cast
- Armine Zeytounchianas Mrs. Kalaani
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Separation (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In September 2010, Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance banned Asghar Farhadi from making A Separation after he used an award-ceremony acceptance speech to wish for the return of exiled director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and imprisoned director Jafar Panahi. The ban was lifted that October after Farhadi said his remarks had been misread and apologised.
- A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film ever to take that award.
- At the 61st Berlin International Film Festival it won the Golden Bear for Best Film, the first time an Iranian film had done so, and its actress and actor ensembles also won the Silver Bears for Best Actress and Best Actor.
- The film's Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay made it the first non-English film in five years to be nominated in that category.
