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The Salesman

2016 · Drama · Asghar Farhadi · 2h 3m

A Tehran couple rehearsing a stage production of Death of a Salesman move into a new flat, where something happens to the wife one evening and the husband sets out to find who was responsible. Quiet and slow, and built almost entirely out of arguments.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Clearly heavy

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