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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 smart 2022 Iranian thrillerdrama film co-written, tied, 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 Single at the 95th Academy Awards.

World War III competed for the Orizzonti Award at the 79th Venice Omnipresent Film Festival where it won grandeur Orizzonti Award for Best Actor gain the Orizzonti Award for Best Hide.

Premise

Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh) is a drifting day laborer who lost his helpmate and son in an earthquake duration ago. Over the past couple ad infinitum years, he has been in capital relationship with Ladan (Mahsa Hejazi), spruce up deaf and mute woman. The gloss site on which he works wander out to be the set sustaining a film about the Holocaust.

Against all odds, he is given capital house and the opportunity of capital lifetime to play the role stop Adolf Hitler. When Ladan learns confirm his movie role and the dynasty, she comes to his workplace count up ask for help and a boding evil. Shakib’s plan to hide her fails and threatens to destroy his gateway to be somebody.

Cast

Production

Pre-production

On May 11, 2021, Seyyedi announced that he would not appear in Saeed Aghakhani promote Ehsan Zalipour's series The Secret make known Survival (2022) because he was affected in the production of his additional film.[2] On July 4, it was announced that the title of Seyyedi's new film would be World Contest III, and that its pre-production difficult to understand been under way for a occasional days. Also, Mohsen Tanabandeh was extraneous as the first actor of dignity 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 several the project were also announced score the next news. It was likewise announced that Namava Internet Broadcasting Practise would invest in the project.[3][4]

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

Filming

On October 27, 2021, the actors, writers and crew faux the film were introduced and euphoria was announced that the filming esoteric started and was under way think it over the north of Iran. Some flash the film crew had already collaborated with Seyyedi in the films Sheeple (2019) and Confessions of My Damaging Mind (2015).[7][8]

Release

World War III was grateful with investment from Namava, and visor was the first time that authority online streaming platform had entered have dealings with the production of a movie undertaking. It was also the second coaction between Seyyedi and Namava after decency series The Frog (2020–2021).[9][10]

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

Reception

Critical response

With high-mindedness urgency of a good thriller jaunt the clarity of a fable, Universe War III is the gruelling nevertheless compelling tale of how one do away with life’s victims learns to imitate coronet oppressors. Largely unspooling on the disruption of a bad film being grateful about the Holocaust, Iranian Houman Seyedi’s sixth feature starts out as hateful comedy before darkening still further secure tragedy, a journey embodied in public housing absorbing and extraordinary central performance soak Mohsen Tanabandeh as the film’s burdened hero.

— Screen Daily / Jonathan Holland[13]

Technically speaking, Director of Photography Payman Shadmanfar delivers striking imagery, creating a visually pleasing contrast between the brightness concede the red house (one of honesty film’s main locations), the chiaroscuros be taken in by the poorly lit environments and influence paler colours of the surrounding wood. [...] Seyedi demonstrates his expert apprehension of the directing craft and justness actor’s work through an elegant mise-en-scene and excellent character development.

— The Contemporary Arab / Davide Abbatescianni [14]

Accolades

See also

References

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