A Separation

December. 29,2011      PG-13
Rating:
8.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Payman Maadi as  Nader
Sare Bayat as  Razieh
Leila Hatami as  Simin
Sarina Farhadi as  Termeh
Shahab Hosseini as  Hojjat
Kimia Hosseini as  Somayyeh
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi as  Nader's Father
Babak Karimi as  Interrogator
Merila Zarei as  Miss Ghahraii
Shirin Yazdanbakhsh as  Simin's Mother

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