← Back to films

The Hidden Half

Name: The Hidden Half
Genre: Drama
Released: 2001-02-06
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 5.1

★ 5,1 /10 (10 Votes)

2001 FA 103 min

Overview

An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.

Release date

06/02/2001

Votes

Popularity

1.2