THE PEARL

MORVARID

By Sirous HASSANPOUR

FARABI CINEMA FOUNDATION - as SALES All rights, World

Children's - Completed 2012

When father is away in hospital, his daughter is praying and his son is risking his life searching for the black pearl...

    • Year of production
    • 2012
    • Genres
    • Children's, Family
    • Countries
    • IRAN
    • Languages
    • FARSI
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sirous HASSANPOUR
    • Writer(s)
    • Sirous HASSANPOUR, Mohammad MORADPOUR
    • Producer(s)
    • Javad NOROUZBEIGI (Farabi Cinema Foundation)
    • Synopsis
    • Karim is a pearl hunter in one of the southern towns in Iran, but he can’t go on due to his heart disease. Following his doctor’s advice, he goes to a big city and finds out that there is no way but surgery. His son, twelve-year-old Maher insists on going to the sea for pearl hunting despite his granddad’s disapproval. Worried for the dad and confronted with money problems, Maher and his little sister, Mahrokh, should grow up sooner than expected…