Drown (film)
| Drown | |
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| Directed by | Mohammad Kart Arastoo sohrabinya |
| Produced by | Rasul Sadr Ameli |
| Written by |
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| Starring | |
| Music by | Masoud Sekhavatdoust |
| Cinematography | Saman Lotfian |
| Edited by | Esmaeil Alizadeh |
Release date | 2020 |
| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
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Drown (Persian: شنای پروانه, romanized: Shena-ye Parvaneh, meaning Butterfly Swimming) (also titled Butterfly Stroke in English) is an Iranian drama crime mystery film directed by Mohammad Kart and arastoo sohrabinya The film screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival and earned 12 nominations and received six Crystal Simorgh awards.[1]
Plot[edit]
Parvaneh goes to her brother-in-law Hojjat's refinery garage and asks him to stop his brother Hashem. Hashem has gone to a swimming pool with his henchmen for revenge and is destroying it because a video of Parvaneh swimming in the swimming pool is published on the Internet. On the way back from the pool, Hashem kills Parvaneh. The court sentences Hashem to death. Hojjat and his father go to Parvaneh's father for consent. Parvaneh's father says he only agrees if the one who took the video is found. Police say the SIM card that first aired the film belonged to a man named Reza Zare, who recently escaped from an addiction camp. Hojjat is looking for Reza along with Mosayeb, Hashem's close friend. But they find that Reza is dead.
With Hashem's guidance, Hojjat goes to the people who worked with Hashem. These include Ashkan who owns a liquor factory and Shapoor who runs a casino. But both deny involvement in the filming. The next day, the police arrests all the people Hojjat had approached. Their henchmen blame Hojjat for reporting them to the police and attack his house. Hojjat, along with her sister-in-law Mohammad, kidnaps and harasses people in the region who have a history of snitching.
Akbar Kenti, one of the abductees, admits that it was him that reported to the police and he did so on the orders of a woman who claimed to be the temporary wife of Hojjat. Hojjat pulls the woman to his garage by a fake accident and puts pressure on her. The woman confesses to filming Parvananeh and hiring Akbar under Mosayeb's order.
Hojjat kidnaps Mosayeb who confesses to everything with the motive of taking revenge on Hashem and says that a few years ago Hashem hired several people to kidnap and rape Misyab. He also says that the arrest of Hojjat for inadvertently smuggling, followed by abortion and infertility of Afsaneh, Hojjat's wife, was a plan of Hashem. He also says that Hojjat has inadvertently smuggled Methamphetamine for Hashem and Mosayeb several times.
Hojjat takes some money from Misyab to set him free. Instead, he prepares three and a half kilos of Methamphetamine (the amount which can follow a death sentence for the smuggler) and embeds it in Mosayeb's apartment and calls the police to arrest him. In the last scene of the film, Hojjat tells his family that he has not been able to find the distributor of the film.
Cast[edit]
- Javad Ezzati as Hojat
- Tannaz Tabatabaei as Parvaneh[lower-alpha 1]
- Amir Aghaei as Hashem
- Ali Shadman as Ashkan
- Pantea Bahram as Shapoor
- Alireza Davood Nejad as Ahmad
- Mahlagha Bagheri as Afsaneh
- Mehdi Hosseininia as Mosayeb
- Iman Safa as Mohammad
- Nahid Moslemi as Toobi
- Aban Asgari as The Woman / Film Recorder
Notes[edit]
- ↑ meaning of this name in Persian is Butterfly
References[edit]
- ↑ "اسامی فیلمهای بخش سودای سیمرغ جشنواره فجر38 اعلام شد". جشنواره فیلم فجر (in فارسی).
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