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Story

Synopsis

Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. Another salesman may beat him to the punch, but not before disorienting changes. A maid scrubs the floor. "In the Penal Colony": a man arrives at a penal colony where an officer demonstrates a bizarre apparatus, one that punches a message into the skin of a prisoner strapped beneath it. Who will be punished? In "Fratricide," a man is murdered at night by someone he knows well. A woman grieves.

Director

Shoja Azari

Writers

Franz Kafka, Shoja Azari

Language

English

Country

Iran, Morocco, United States of America

Release date

1 January 2002

Ensemble

Cast

• Oz Phillips

  Robert/Explorer/Mr. Wese

• Shoja Azari

  Face in the Monitor

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  Shirin Neshat

  Housekeeper

• Mohammad Ghaffari

  Father/Officer/Schmar

• Rick Poli

  Sales Agent/Victim/Pallas

• Heaven Lee Darling

  Son

• Ann Parker

  Mother

• Shahram Karimi

  Soldier

• Hamid Farjad

  New Commandant

• Mitra Ghamsari

  Mrs. Wese