No One Knows About Persian Cats
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Directed by | Bahman Ghobadi |
Produced by | Bahman Ghobadi |
Written by | Bahman Ghobadi Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar Roxana Saberi |
Starring | Negar Shaghaghi Ashkan Kooshanejad Hamed Behdad |
Music by | Ashkan Kooshanejad Mahdyar Aghajani |
Cinematography | Turaj Aslani |
Edited by | Haydeh Safi-Yari |
Production
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Mij Film
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Release dates
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May 14, 2009 |
Running time
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106 minutes |
Country | Iran |
Language | Persian |
No One Knows About Persian Cats (Persian: کسی از گربه های ایرانی خبر نداره) is a 2009 Iranian film directed by Bahman Ghobadi produced by Wild Bunch. Originally titled Kasi az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh, in the film's native language, Persian, this film first took on the name of Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats before finally being titled No One Knows About Persian Cats. The film offers perspective of Iran as it explores its underground Rock scene. It won the Special Jury Prize Ex-aequo in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Contents
Plot
The film follows two young musicians (Ashkan and Negar) as they form a band and prepare to leave Iran shortly after being released from prison. The pair befriends a man named Nader (Hamed Behdad), an underground music enthusiast and producer who helps them travel around Tehran and its surrounding areas in order to meet other underground musicians possibly interested in forming a band and later leaving the country.
Cast
Bands and musicians
- Take It Easy Hospital
- Rana Farhan
- Hichkas
- The Yellow Dogs
- Shervin Najafian
- Ash Koosha
- Mirza (band)
- The Free Keys
- Mahdyar Aghajani
- Darkoob
- Hamed Seyed Javadi
- Nik Aein Band
International cinema release dates
- 23 December 2009: France[2]
- 3 February 2010: Belgium
- 26 March 2010: UK
Limited Release: Curzon Soho & Key Cities[3][full citation needed]
- 16 April 2010: USA (New York City only)
[citation needed] - 16 April 2010: Italy
- 15 July 2010: Israel[4]
Reception
Awards and nominations
Its first official screening was at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize Ex-aequo in the Un Certain Regard section.
- Cannes Film Festival:
- Special Jury Prize Ex-aequo in the Un Certain Regard section (won)
Accusations
Shortly after the release of the movie, Iranian director Torang Abedian accused Ghobadi of having used many ideas for his movie from her documentary "Not an Illusion", made from 2003-2008 and released in the same year. According to Abedian, her camera operator got a call from Ghobadi and left her afterwards to make the movie about the same topic with Ghobadi in a few days.[5]
References
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- ↑ http://www.festival-cannes.fr/fr/article/56923.html
- ↑ List of release dates and venues of No One Knows About Persian Cats on www.brightwide.com [1]
- ↑ List of upcoming movie releases in Israel, updated regularly by movie publishers and film journalists (Hebrew). [2]
- ↑ http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/245863 - Austrian radio station Ö1
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External links
- Underground Musicians Fight The Man In Tehran, NPR movie review by Mark Jenkins, 2010-04-15, accessed 2010-05-07.
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). No One Knows About Persian Cats at IMDb
- In-depth review of the film and its soundtrack
- Behind the scene of No One Knows About Persian Cats[dead link]
- No One Knows About Persian Cats Soundtrack
- This is music from a brave and extraordinary musical movement, BBC review
- Pages with broken file links
- Persian-language films
- Articles containing Persian-language text
- Articles with unsourced statements from May 2010
- Articles with dead external links from February 2011
- 2000s drama films
- 2009 films
- Films about music and musicians
- Films directed by Bahman Ghobadi
- Iranian films
- Rock music films