The Salesman (2016 film)
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The Salesman (Persian: فروشنده, romanized: Forušande, released in France as Le Client) is a 2016 Iranian-French drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. It is about a married couple who perform Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman on stage. When the wife is assaulted, her husband attempts to determine the identity of the attacker, while she struggles to cope with post-trauma stress. Farhadi chose Miller's play as his story within a story based on shared themes. A co-production between Iran and France, the film was shot in Tehran, beginning in 2015.
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Directed by | Asghar Farhadi |
Written by | Asghar Farhadi |
Produced by | Alexandre Mallet-Guy Asghar Farhadi |
Starring | Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti |
Cinematography | Hossein Jafarian |
Edited by | Hayedeh Safiyari |
Music by | Sattar Oraki |
Production companies | Memento Films Production Asghar Farhadi Production Arte France Cinéma |
Distributed by | Filmiran (Iran) Memento Films Distribution (France) |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
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Language | Persian |
Box office | 16.1 billion toman (Iran)[2] |
The film premiered in competition in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards—Best Screenplay for Farhadi and Best Actor for Hosseini. The Salesman was very well-received by film critics, who mainly praised Farhadi's direction and writing, and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, being his second win after A Separation (2011). However, Farhadi did not attend the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in protest of the U.S. Executive Order 13769.