Fireworks Wednesday

by Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2006
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The film portrays three couples on the eve of Nouruz, the Iranian New Year. Rouhi, a young woman who is about to get married, takes a small job as a cleaner in an apartment in northern Tehran to finance her marriage. When she arrives in that apartment, she finds herself in a heated dispute between Mojdeh and Morteza. Mojdeh suspects her husband Morteza of cheating on her and her neighbour Simin, and obliges Rouhi to shadow them. Rouhi gets more and more between the fronts of the fighting couple.

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Original Title
Fireworks Wednesday
Title
Fireworks Wednesday
Directed by
Asghar Farhadi
Country
Iran
Year
2006
Screenplay
Asghar Farhadi, Mani Haghighi
Film Editing
Hayedeh Safiyari
Soundtrack
Peyman Yazdanian
Cinematography
Hossein Jafarian
Sound
Ramin Abousedgh
Production Design
Hossein Majd
Production
Jamal Sadatian
Formats
DVD
Runtime
104 min.
Language
Farsi/d und f
Cast
Hamid Farokhnezhad (Morteza), Hediyeh Tehrani (Mozhde Samiei), Taraneh Alidoosti (Roohi), Pantea Bahram (Simin), Houman Seyyedi (Houman Seyyedi)

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«Das permanente Geknalle (Neujahrsfest!) passt gut zum ehelichen Kriegsschauplatz, den Asghar Farhadi differenziert und ohne simple Schuldzuweisungen inszeniert. Famoses Alltagsdrama, turbulent und ergreifend.» Cinema

«Wenige iranische Filme haben versucht, die städtische Mittel- sowie Unterschicht darzustellen, noch wenigere mit der Komplexität des Erzählens und der Tiefe der Charakterzeichnung wie in Ashgar Farhadis ‚Fireworks Wednesday‘. [...] dieses schön voranschreitende Drama über Untreue in der Ehe, durch die Augen eines jungen Hausmädchens kurz vor der Heirat betrachtet, ist psychologisch verzwickt und dramatisch fesselnd.» Deborah Young, Variety