Fireworks Wednesday

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Fireworks Wednesday (چهارشنبه سوری)
Directed by	Asghar Farhadi
Produced by	Jamal Saadatian
Written by	Asghar Farhadi and Mani Haghighi
Starring	Hedye Tehrani Taraneh Alidoosti Hamid Farokhnezhad Pantea Bahram
Music by	Payman Yazdanian
Cinematography	Hossein Jafarian
Editing by	Haideh Safiyari
Distributed by	Boshra Films
Release date(s)	2006
Language	Persian
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This article is about the film. For the festival, see Chaharshanbe Suri.

Fireworks Wednesday (Persian: چهارشنبه سوری , Chaharshanbe Suri) is a 2006 Iranian film written by Asghar Farhadi and Mani Haghighi. It was directed by Asghar Farhadi and stars Hedyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidousti, Hamid Farokhnezhad and Pantea Bahram.

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The story begins with Rouhi, a young maid from the poor neighborhoods of south Tehran who gets assigned to clean an apartment in northern Tehran. Upon arriving at the middle-class apartment, she finds herself in a heated domestic dispute between Mojdeh and Morteza. Mojdeh suspects that her husband Morteza is cheating on her with the next door neighbor Simin. The film is set against the backdrop of the ancient Iranian tradition of Chaharshanbe Suri, which in recent years has taken the form of a public protest.