DARBAREYE ELLY (About Elly) (Iranian)
The Story:
Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini) was born and raised in Iran, but moved to Germany after marrying a woman he met there. The marriage ended in divorce, and when Ahmad returns home for a ten-day vacation, a handful of friends arrange for him to join them on a vacation by the seaside.
Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) thinks Ahmad needs to settle down with a nice Iranian woman, and playing matchmaker, she invites along Elly (Taraneh Alidousti), a pretty girl who teaches Kindergarten at the school Sepideh's children attend. Hoping to bring them together, Sepideh tells the woman who has rented them a tumbledown beach house that Ahmad and Elly are newlyweds who will share a room, and she and the other revelers go out of their way to try to bring the two together, even though they barely know one another.
When Elly disappears, no one is sure what to think -- did she go back to Teheran without letting anyone know? Has she drowned? Was she killed? Has she been playing a prank on them? As Ahmad, Sepideh and their friends have to deal with the authorities and Elly's worried family, they realize Sepideh's fib may have had dire consequences.
Starring:
Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Peyman Moaadi, Marila Zare'i, Golshifteh Farahani
Directed By:
Asghar Farhadi
Release:
2009
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