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Darbareye Elly (2009)

 |  Drama, Mystery  |  6 June 2009 (Iran)
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The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

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Elly
Merila Zare'i ...
Shohreh
Mani Haghighi ...
Amir
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Peyman
Ra'na Azadivar ...
Naazi
Ahmad Mehranfar ...
Manoochehr
Saber Abar ...
Alireza (as Saber Abbar)
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A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that she has to return to Tehran because her mother has been recently submitted to hospital for heart surgery, but Sepideh asks her to stay and hides her luggage. The children are playing in the sea and one mother asks Elly to watch them. Out of the blue, Sepideh's daughter calls to some men playing volleyball to rescue one of the children from the water. After rescuing the little boy they seek out Elly, questioning whether she has drowned or returned to Tehran. What has happened to Elly? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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$15,000 (USA) (10 April 2015)

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$106,662 (USA) (8 May 2015)
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This is Golshifteh Farahani's last movie in Iran, which she did after Body of Lies (2008) by Ridley Scott. See more »

Goofs

When they decide to stay in the villa and start to clean it, Ahmad calls the boy (Omid) by name asking him about where he can find a vacuum cleaner. Seconds later, he asks the boy about his name. See more »

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Sepideh: Now, what does he think about Elly?
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7 February 2012 | by (Singapore) – See all my reviews

Long breath taking shots. Perfect crew. Fantastic location. Sharpe and best cinematography & screenplay.

I pause when Taraneh Alidoosti flying kite. Unknowingly, I got some thrilling feeling. the screenplay, background music, camera and she brought me to like it was real and I was in front of sea to watching it. I took long breath to realise it was movie.

I feel that I was connected to film that is The director's touch and won the audience.

It is My second Iranian film and it changed everything about Iran. I missed lot. I plan to watch more film from various director.

Really It is great one, everyone must watch.


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