Two Women (film)

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Two Women (Do zan)

Directed by	Tahmineh Milani
Produced by	Arta film, Arman film
Written by	Tahmineh Milani
Starring	Niki Karimi Mohammad Reza Forutan Merila Zarei Atila Pesiani Reza Khandan
Music by	Babak Bayat
Release date(s)	1999
Running time	96 min.
Language	Persian with English subtitles
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This article is about the 1999 Persian film. For other uses, see Two Women (disambiguation).

Two Women (Do zan) is a 1999 Iranian motion picture written and directed by Tahmineh Milani.

Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic, creating a portrait of traditions which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential. The movie won the best screenplay award at Iran's Fajr Film Festival in 1999 as well as Best Actress for Niki Karimi's part in the Taormina Film Festival.

1 Plot
2 Principal cast and characters
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Roya and Fereshteh are two friends at a university in Tehran. Fereshteh is being stalked by a young gangster who will stop at nothing to marry her. He causes many problems and eventually Fereshteh's parents pull her out of the city and sit her back in her hometown of Esfahan. At this time, the university is being shut down by the government of Iran.

[edit] Principal cast and characters

Niki Karimi - Fereshteh
Merila Zarei - Roya
Mohammad Reza Forutan - Hassan
Reza Khandan - Fereshteh's father
Atila Pesiani - Ahmad

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Two Women at the Internet Movie Database

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