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Otagh-e-Tarik (2018)

Otagh-e-Tarik poster
Original title
اتاق تاریک
Directed by
Ruhollah Hejazi
Genre
drama film
Country
Iran
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
18A
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Iranian drama is about the persecution and rape of children in Iran. It follows the lives of those affected by these crimes.

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What happens

The Dark Room (Persian: اتاق تاریک) is a 2018 Iranian drama directed, written and produced by Rouhollah Hejazi. The subject of this film is the persecution and rape of children in Iran. Hejazi went to the thirty-sixth Fajr Film Festival with The Dark Room three years after his latest release, Death of the Fish. It won Best Film at the Hanoi International Film Festival and at the Film Festival of Kerala in 2018. It was the only representative of Iran at the Belgrade Film Festival in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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