Cease Fire (2006 film)

Cease Fire (in Persian:آتش‌بس Atashbas) is a 2006 Iranian film written and directed by Tahmineh Milani, starring Mohammad Reza Golzar, Mahnaz Afshar, and Atila Pesyani. The movie shows a young couple who are seeking divorce, but end up realizing that they just need to face their Inner child to overcome their difficulties.

Cease Fire
Directed byTahmineh Milani
Produced byMohammad Nikbin
Written byTahmineh Milani
StarringMohammad Reza Golzar
Mahnaz Afshar
Atila Pesyani
Music byNaser cheshmazar
CinematographyAlireza Zarindast
Edited byMastane Mohajer
Release date
  • 26 April 2006 (2006-04-26)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Plot

The film begins by showing a married couple Sayeh (Mahnaz Afshar) and her husband, Yousef (Mohammad Reza Golzar) who are both stubborn and spend a lot of their time trying to top the others latest outrageous adventure at getting even. Scene after scene we watch the quarreling couple play childish pranks on each other. The movie goes on with showing that Sayeh wants to seek divorce, but by mistake knocks on the door of a psychiatrist (Attila Pesyani) instead of a lawyer. She is soon discovered in the psychiatrist's office by her husband, Yousef. The psychiatrist informs both that their problem is that they are not behaving maturely, so that they need to live apart from each other for a week. In a week they come back to the psychiatrist, and he tells them that they are trying to act out their “inner child.” He suggests that they need to talk with their inner child. They come back and see the psychiatrist who realizes that they have overcome their difficulties and coped with their "inner child." The couple change their minds about getting a divorce.[1]

Cast

Release

Cease Fire was one of the best selling movies in Iran cinema history until the movie Ekhrajiha Persian: اخراجی ها‎ (released in 2007) took over.[2] Cease Fire has been awarded in the Fajr International Film Festival it grossed $82362 in Iran [3] Cease Fire is called the Iranian Mr. & Mrs. Smith since it includes a bit of Tom and Jerry cartoons, the writer and director Tahmineh Milani tries to show the comedian exaggerations of this movie.[4]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2012-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0838254/
  3. http://coinmill.com/IRR_USD.html#IRR=10
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2012-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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