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93% Fresh: Critically lauded crime thriller from Iran

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan.

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig grows into an epic of suspense, an unpredictable domestic thriller where the personal is always political. – AV Club

A thriller of propulsive skill and blunt emotional force, marrying the muscularity of an action film to the psychological intensity of a chamber drama. – The New Yorker

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Series
Genre
DramaThriller
Runtime 168 minutes
Rated 14A
Directed By Mohammad Rasoulof
Starring Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi
Language Persian with English subtitles
Country
FranceGermany

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