Through the Olive Trees
Abbas Kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final installment of The Koker Trilogy. Unfolding “behind the scenes” of And Life Goes On, this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors—a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him—creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle. An ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of Iranian village life, Through the Olive Trees peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality.
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami’s son Ahmad Kiarostami
- New conversation between scholar Jamsheed Akrami and critic Godfrey Cheshire
- New English subtitle translation
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami’s son Ahmad Kiarostami
- New conversation between scholar Jamsheed Akrami and critic Godfrey Cheshire
- New English subtitle translation
Cast
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Film director
- Farhad Kheradmand
- Farhad
- Zarifeh Shiva
- Mrs. Shiva
- Hossein Rezai
- Hossein
- Tahereh Ladanian
- Tahereh
- Hocine Redai
- Hocine
- Mahbanou Darabi
- Grandmother
- Babak Ahmadpour
- Himself
- Ahmad Ahmadpour
- Himself
Credits
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Written by
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Produced by
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Editor
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Producer
- Alain Depardieu
- Director of photography
- Hossein Jafarian
- Assistant director
- Jafar Panahi
- Sound engineer
- Mahmoud Samakbashi
- Sound engineer
- Yadollah Najafi
- Sound engineer
- Hossein Moradi
- Sound mixer
- Changiz Sayad
- Continuity
- Guiti Khamnai
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