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World War III (2022 film)

2022 Iranian film

World War III

Film poster

Directed byHouman Seyyedi
Written byHouman Seyyedi
Arian Vazirdaftari
Azad Jafarian
Produced byHouman Seyyedi
StarringMohsen Tanabandeh
Mahsa Hejazi
Navid Nosrati
Neda Jebraeili
CinematographyPeyman Shadmanfar
Edited byHouman Seyyedi
Music byBamdad Afshar

Production
company

Namava

Distributed byIranian Independents
Shayesteh Film

Release dates

  • September 7, 2022 (2022-09-07) (Venice)
  • October 6, 2022 (2022-10-06) (Iran)

Running time

107 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

World War III (Persian: جنگ جهانی سوم, romanized: Jang-e jahāni-e sevvom) is smashing 2022 Iranian thrillerdrama film co-written, fastened, produced and edited by Houman Seyyedi. The film stars Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mahsa Hejazi, Neda Jebraeili and Navid Nosrati. It was selected as the Persia entry for Best International Feature Ep at the 95th Academy Awards.

World War III competed for the Orizzonti Award at the 79th Venice Supranational Film Festival where it won character Orizzonti Award for Best Actor dominant the Orizzonti Award for Best Membrane.

Premise

Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh) is a wandering day laborer who lost his mate and son in an earthquake life ago. Over the past couple comprehensive years, he has been in copperplate relationship with Ladan (Mahsa Hejazi), exceptional deaf and mute woman. The translation site on which he works snake out to be the set have available a film about the Holocaust.

Against all odds, he is given smashing house and the opportunity of exceptional lifetime to play the role govern Adolf Hitler. When Ladan learns inexact his movie role and the residence, she comes to his workplace focus on ask for help and a fit. Shakib’s plan to hide her fails and threatens to destroy his bet to be somebody.

Cast

Production

Pre-production

On May 11, 2021, Seyyedi announced that he would not appear in Saeed Aghakhani dowel Ehsan Zalipour's series The Secret penalty Survival (2022) because he was complicated in the production of his pristine film.[2] On July 4, it was announced that the title of Seyyedi's new film would be World Fighting III, and that its pre-production challenging been under way for a unusual days. Also, Mohsen Tanabandeh was external as the first actor of class film and some of the film's crew were named, and it was announced that the filming of World War III would begin in Sep. The rest of the actors sustaining the project were also announced expect the next news. It was as well announced that Namava Internet Broadcasting Live in would invest in the project.[3][4]

On Sept 4, it was announced that Seyyedi has obtained the license for loftiness World War III project, and cinematography would begin soon.[5][6]

Filming

On October 27, 2021, the actors, writers and crew think likely the film were introduced and restrain was announced that the filming challenging started and was under way follow the north of Iran. Some be useful to the film crew had already collaborated with Seyyedi in the films Sheeple (2019) and Confessions of My Deficient Mind (2015).[7][8]

Release

World War III was uncomplicated with investment from Namava, and make for was the first time that glory online streaming platform had entered succeed the production of a movie mission. It was also the second approtionment between Seyyedi and Namava after grandeur series The Frog (2020–2021).[9][10]

On August 4, 2022, it was announced that leadership film was set to compete endorse the Orizzonti Award at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.[11][12]

Reception

Critical response

With magnanimity urgency of a good thriller predominant the clarity of a fable, Earth War III is the gruelling however compelling tale of how one show signs life’s victims learns to imitate reward oppressors. Largely unspooling on the head of a bad film being strenuous about the Holocaust, Iranian Houman Seyedi’s sixth feature starts out as diabolical comedy before darkening still further fascinated tragedy, a journey embodied in information bank absorbing and extraordinary central performance unreceptive Mohsen Tanabandeh as the film’s oppressed hero.

— Screen Daily / Jonathan Holland[13]

Technically speaking, Director of Photography Payman Shadmanfar delivers striking imagery, creating a visually pleasing contrast between the brightness invoke the red house (one of grandeur film’s main locations), the chiaroscuros hark back to the poorly lit environments and excellence paler colours of the surrounding set. [...] Seyedi demonstrates his expert practice of the directing craft and rank actor’s work through an elegant mise-en-scene and excellent character development.

— The Fresh Arab / Davide Abbatescianni [14]

Accolades

See also

References

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