''Immortality'' (
Persian
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: جاودانگی - Javdanegi) is a 2016 Iranian
experimental
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drama
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film directed by
Mehdi Fard Ghaderi
Mehdi Fard Ghaderi (Persian: مهدی فرد قادری ; born 1986) Iranian Director, Screenwriter and Producer He is known for his films ''Immortality'' (2016), ''Weightlessness'' (2019) and ''The Annoyed (2023).''
His first feature ''Immort ...
. This movie was recorded entirely on the train. All of the footage takes place on a rainy night using a 145-minute Steadicam one-shot sequence. Immortality was filmed in fourteen nights, and the film was shot twelve times until the end. The final film is one of those twelve takes.
Plot
All the events of this movie take place on a rainy night on a train and it tells the story of the lives of six families in different train carriages, which is narrated with time shifts.
An old man is informed that he has only three more days to live, he is on a train to go to his cottage and be there when he dies. Slowly his dreams begin.
Cast
* Manocher Alipour
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Anna Nemati
* Maral Farjad
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Faghiheh Soltani
Faghiheh Soltani (Persian: فقیهه سلطانی) is an Iranian actress.
Biography
Soltani was born in Hamedan in 1974, and studied drama at Islamic Azad University. She took acting lessons with Golab Adineh. She made her acting debut in 19 ...
* Soudabe Beizzaii
* Atabak Naderi
* Alireza Ostadi
Reception
First premiere Immortality was at the "Rome" Film Festival 2016 in Italy. Italian critics wrote positive reviews about the film.
Then this film was then screened at the festival of Munich, Germany and Transylvania, Romania.
Immortality was screened in forty international festivals and received several international festivals from America and Italy.
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References
Iranian drama films
2016 drama films
Films set on trains