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Arjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood sweetheart, Roya, for the past 40 years. Roya, however, has brought him nothing but trouble. Now 50, and having experienced a revolution, a war, a divorce and both poverty and wealth, Arjang finds himself still in love with Roya.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 63GoodWatch 57
IMDb6.3
Running time
1 h 27 min
Shorter than most comedies, −13 min on the typical 100
typical 10087Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 139 countries
+129Released
2015
May 20, 2015
11 years ago
Genre
ComedyLanguage
Persian
Original language
Made in
Iran
and 8 more12 people
- Reza AttaranArjang
- Mahnaz AfsharRoya
- Vishka AsayeshFarnaz
- Ali GhorbanzadehTaghighi
- BNBabak NahrainReza
- Reza NajiPanah
- Amirhossein RostamiOfficer of the Islamic Revolution Committee
- Sam NouriDentist, Roya’s second husband
- Nader SoleimaniArjang's father
Hanie TavassoliArjang's mother
Hossein Soleimanipolice officer
Sepand AmirsoleimaniSinger
Directing · 1
- Saman Moghaddam Director, Producer
Writing · 2
- Mani Baghbani Writer
- Mona Zahed Writer
Production · 1
- Ali Ghorbanzadeh Producer
Camera · 1
- Farshad Mohammadi Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Siamak Mehmandoust Editor
Sound · 2
- Amir Tavassoli Original Music Composer
- Alireza Ghaffarinejad Sound
Art · 1
- Mohsen Nasrollahi Set Designer
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Saeid Malekan Makeup Artist
- Golnaz Golshan Costume Designer
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