Iron Island

Iron Island

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Iron Island

2005

1h 26m

7.2(16 votes)

Drama

Overview

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

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Farabi Cinema

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Cast & Crew

3 members

Acting

علی نصیریان

Captain Nemat

علی نصیریان

Acting

Hossein Farzi-Zadeh

Ahmad

Hossein Farzi-Zadeh

Acting

Neda Pakdaman

Golpar Salehi

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