A MAN OF INTEGRITY

LERD

By Mohammad RASOULOF

BIG WORLD PICTURES - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, USA

Social issues - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Cannes 2017
Un Certain Regard Award
Chicago IFF 2017
Silver Hugo
Jerusalem FF 2017
Wilf Family Foundation Award
Golden Apricot - Yerevan IFF 2017
FIPRESCI Prize
Int'l Antalya Golden Orange 2017
Best Director & Best Actor
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Drama
    • Countries
    • IRAN
    • Languages
    • FARSI
    • Duration
    • 117 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mohammad RASOULOF
    • Writer(s)
    • Mohammad RASOULOF
    • Producer(s)
    • Mohammad RASOULOF, Kaveh FARNAM, Rozita HENDIJANIA
    • Synopsis
    • Reza (35), having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and sole child, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working in his gold fish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authorities, has taken control of nearly every aspect of the regional life. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic rents, have been pushing local farmers and small owners to dilapidate their belongings, farms and estates, to the benefit of the Company’s influential network and its monopoly. It is under their pressure that many villagers have themselves become local rings of the larger network of corruption. Meanwhile, Reza strives to resist coercion and preserve his farm. Soon though, he will realize that he can no longer stand up to this powerful, yet hidden, coercive web of corruption. Giving up, he decides to sell his property and move away. The Company however, decides to raise the stakes…