CARELESS CRIME

By Shahram MOKRI

CINEMATOGRAPH FILMVERLEIH / OTTO PREMINGER-INSTITUT - as DISTR Theatrical

Drama - Completed 2020

On a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people.

Festivals
& Awards

Chicago IFF 2020
Silver Hugo
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • IRAN
    • Languages
    • FARSI
    • Duration
    • 139 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Shahram MOKRI
    • Writer(s)
    • Nasim AHMADPOUR , Shahram MOKRI
    • Producer(s)
    • Negar ESKANDARFAR
    • Synopsis
    • Forty years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theaters as a way of showing opposition to Western culture. Many cinemas were burned down. In one tragic case, a theater was set on fire with four hundred people inside, most of whom were burned alive. Forty years have passed and, in contemporary Iran, four individuals also decide to burn a cinema down. Their intended target is a theater showing a film about an unearthed, unexploded missile. Will past and present meet?