Through the Olive Trees (1994)

Review: Through the Olive Trees (1994)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Cast: Mohammadali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai, Tahereh Ladanian,

Mohammadali Keshavarz
Mohammadali Keshavarz
Farhad Kheradmand
Farhad Kheradmand
Zarifeh Shiva
Zarifeh Shiva
Hossein Rezai
Hossein Rezai
Tahereh Ladanian
Tahereh Ladanian

Plot: The film focuses on one of the events in "Life, and Nothing More..." (1992), and explores the relationship between the film director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is trying to persuade the actress that they should get married.

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Abbas Kiarostami&#8217;s <i>The Koker Trilogy</i> (1987-94): <br>Criterion Blu-ray review

Abbas Kiarostami’s The Koker Trilogy (1987-94): Criterion Blu-ray review

Abbas Kiarostami’s multi-layered triptych of films dubbed The Koker Trilogy begins with a neorealist depiction of childhood in a small Iranian village and continues with an increasingly complex blend of documentary and fiction in which the […]

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