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  • Iron Island
  • Opened March 31, 2006
  • NR
  • A benevolent captain presides over the lives of the many families who live on a decaying, overcrowded oil tanker that is anchored in the Persian Gulf. The impoverished inhabitants do whatever they can to survive, selling scrap metal from the ship Read More
  • Cast: Ali Nasirian, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh, Neda Pakdaman
  • Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
  • Genres: Comedy, Drama

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  • 88
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Wilmington

    A powerful symbolic drama.

  • 80
    L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor

    A thrilling example of the cunning political allegory woven into vivid...

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Richly detailed -- and improbably entertaining.

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    This is not a typical Iranian production. Simultaneously deeply allegorical and...

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