A recently jailed petty thief disguises as a Mullah and succeeds in escaping; but has to stay in the Mullah' role longer than he expected to.A recently jailed petty thief disguises as a Mullah and succeeds in escaping; but has to stay in the Mullah' role longer than he expected to.A recently jailed petty thief disguises as a Mullah and succeeds in escaping; but has to stay in the Mullah' role longer than he expected to.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination
- Amir Bengard
- (voice)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaBroke Iranian box-office record although it was only in theaters for two weeks.
- Quotes
Mojtaba: Haji,in North Pole we have six months of nights and six months of days. How can we say our day and night prayers over there?
Reza Marmoulak: You look at me as if you have a bus ticket for the North Pole and you want to leave right now!
Reza Marmoulak: Actually, there are differences among the clergy over this issue. Some of them believe that we Muslims should never go tho North Pole because we are used to warm climates and the cold weather will bother us. So why should we go to a place where we might freeze to death?
Mojtaba: Then, if a war breaks out between the Muslims and North Pole what would happen to a Muslim who might be taken captive?
Reza Marmoulak: Yes!Actually this is what the other clergy say that all the prayers that you say during the six months of night will be considered as night prayers and so screw the North Pole.You better say your prayers according to the local time of your own country.
Mojtaba: Haji, Then if we take that...
Reza Marmoulak: Case closed.You better eat your yoghurt!
- Crazy creditsIn the scene of Parviz Parastouei's rise from the wall of the house to save the girl, the stuntman was not used, and Parviz Parastouei practiced for a while,
- ConnectionsReferences Pulp Fiction (1994)
What brought me to see Marmoulak ? I don't know : the ways of God are impenetrable !
Kidding, of course, with not offense to anyone...
Until now this is my first and only Persian movie I saw...
and I enjoyed it a lot : good story, good acting, excellent music...
It's a bitter-sweet comedy, about Reza the lizard, his short adventures in jail, and then a (may I call it like that ?) kind of involuntary redemption...
Don't expect, if you're like me a western European citizen, to laugh very loudly, but to have a certain smile all along the movie...
I mean, following Persian(?) commentaries it seems that depending on your national and cultural background, you will laugh more or less, very loudly....
I didn't... but nevertheless think it is an excellent movie.
It doesn't deal with all the stupid clichés one might have about religion, (any of them) but present an profound human aspect
of anyone trapped in something which was not chosen...
Touching and interesting, I'm glad it entered my library ! Opposing to some comments, I think this good movie is Not only for Iranians...
but if you are an average middle abc/nbc/cnn/fr1/ab1 television type freak, may be you better turn on your TV daily program...
who knows, be careful, it could open your mind !
***A film is never really good unless the camera is an eyes in the head of a poet Orson Welles***
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- Dec 2, 2007
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