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About The Salesman

The Salesman is Asghar Farhadi's seventh film that won two trophies for the Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and the academy award for the best Foreign Language Film in 2017. About The Salesman is a documentary about Farhadi's method of filmmaking: development, pre-production, production, and post-production, with interviews with Asghar Farhadi and the analysis of the renowned Iranian and international film critics about The Salesman and Farhadi's cinema.

Top Cast

  • Asghar Farhadi

    Asghar Farhadi

  • Houshang Golmakani

    Houshang Golmakani

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Mehrzad Danesh

    Mehrzad Danesh

  • Fabio Ferzetti

    Fabio Ferzetti

  • Godfrey Cheshire

    Godfrey Cheshire

  • Michel Ciment

    Michel Ciment

  • Philippe Rouyer

    Philippe Rouyer

Overview

The Salesman is Asghar Farhadi's seventh film that won two trophies for the Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and the academy award for the best Foreign Language Film in 2017. About The Salesman is a documentary about Farhadi's method of filmmaking: development, pre-production, production, and post-production, with interviews with Asghar Farhadi and the analysis of the renowned Iranian and international film critics about The Salesman and Farhadi's cinema.

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