A man loses his memory in a war hospital—was he ever who he thought?
Nasser Pooyan goes on a trip to the north of Iran with some of his friends. He has an accident with a child hitting him with his motorcycle. Because of his conscience hurting him badly he returns to Tehran alone. In the way back home he himself has a car accident. An ambulance comes to take him to the hospital but by accident they take him to an hospital of war injures. But he can not remember his true identity so doctors and nurses try hard to help him remember his true identity.
Direction
Hatamikia's controlled ambiguity keeps you unmoored.
Acting
Farjad's vacant gaze does more than dialogue ever could.
Director
Ebrahim Hatamikia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Iran-Iraq War, the film uses amnesia as metaphor for a nation losing itself in endless conflict.
Hatamikia reportedly shot the hospital scenes in an actual military facility, blurring documentary and dream.
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