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Walnut Tree

Original title: Derakhte Gerdoo
  • 2020
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
2.8K
YOUR RATING
Payman Maadi in Walnut Tree (2020)
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Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in western Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraq... Read allQader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in western Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city.Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in western Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city.

  • Director
    • Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian
  • Writers
    • Ebrahim Amini
    • Hossein Hassani
  • Stars
    • Payman Maadi
    • Mina Sadati
    • Minoo Sharifi
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    2.8K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian
    • Writers
      • Ebrahim Amini
      • Hossein Hassani
    • Stars
      • Payman Maadi
      • Mina Sadati
      • Minoo Sharifi
    • 18User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 17 nominations total

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    Payman Maadi
    Payman Maadi
    • Qader
    Mina Sadati
    Mina Sadati
    • Homa
    Minoo Sharifi
    • Maryam
    Mehran Modiri
    Mehran Modiri
    • Doctor Ahmad
    Nazila Amini
    Shadi Amiri
    Amir Bay
    • Ashkan
    Heydar Fathi
    Javad Ghamati
    Mohammad Reza Ghanbari
    Hanieh Gholami
    Ziba Hajian
    Amir Hossein Hashemi
    • Emergency driver
    Mojtaba Akbarzadeh Kahrizi
    • Amirali
    Majid Karimi
    Rezvan Khodami
    Shilan Madani
    Hanieh Mofleh
    • Director
      • Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian
    • Writers
      • Ebrahim Amini
      • Hossein Hassani
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    User reviews18

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    10bsbloodyshadow

    Great it is and that's all

    I think that everyone in the world have to watch this movie cause this is the best Iranian movie that I ever watched. Even though I'm Iranian there are a few movies that I watched and I'll Watch them again & again cause they're awesome. The music is really good, and actors act really well, and story I can't describe that how it drowned me. Everyone in the world please watch this movie but don't watch it as a guy who says its an Iranian movie and I'm sure its a trash, watch it as a human.
    10krmyarf

    LONG LIVE PEACE AND LIFE

    This film is really in praise of a human being and life. In fact, it's a bitter and beautiful symphony of suffering human beings. The real story of this film is a shocking document on the real face of war. Damn the war and its supporters ..
    10shahkrmrfan

    The peak of acting glory

    The great game of Peyman Maadi should not be taken into account in Kurdish language and face design ... Playing with senses, playing with eyes, playing with situations, facial mimics and body language is one of the winning cards of his game.

    Peyman Maadi's play in this film is an exception One should not even miss the brilliant filming of this film ... a camera that tells the story on its own and follows in the footsteps of this suffering father.
    10omidsh-27116

    A TRUE STORY

    The Walnut Tree is an influential family melodrama that takes place in the heart of war, but with a true bitter story ... it is one of the best bitter and humane films in Iranian cinema.

    From Peyman Maadi's excellent acting in creating inner feelings .. His acting in Peyman Maadi is an acting class. With a strong director who creates memorable sequences and a camera that serves the story. The ending of this film is one of the brilliant endings. A dreamy and beautiful but bitter ending; The end of the fate of the lost daughter of this father who could not find her and died without seeing her. One of the special advantages of this film is its excellent music, which is one of the most influential music.
    10iammd-64195

    When I first saw it

    The screenwriter who became an actor and then gradually expanded this experience. An actor with a background in middle-class films, in the role of ordinary people in Tehran who ruin his life in the face of secrecy and violence and reconciliation between a couple. But the "walnut tree" is his first serious experience; Apart from all that, his encounter with an ordinary man is of descent, a man who must forget all that "ordinary urbanity" and become an "Avesta able to build" in a village near Sardasht. This is the biggest risk of the "walnut tree"; Trust in an actor who is a familiar face and is supposed to play the role of a simple Kurdish worker. The brilliance of performing Maadi is not in the correct tone and utterance of Kurdish words, whose skill in restraint, controlling the senses, is a performance rather than an explosion. A film with such a feeling, which mostly plays with the human soul, stimulates the actor to perform to the maximum. But Maadi, with the control of the Mahdists, has turned into a mini-mall, and the result is a torrent of pain that breaks every person's back. The conscious and intelligent choice of director-actor has helped to convey the feeling to the audience not through expression but through control and avoidance of expression, and therefore, this is probably the best Maadi play of all these years.

    When you watch "Walnut Tree", think about yesterday, think about what we left behind, think about today and see how hard we all lived and what hope we had for life. We have come here from the heart of the apocalypse.

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      Winner of the best director award at the Fajr Film Festival 2020. It also won the best actor award for Peyman Maadi.

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    • Release date
      • February 1, 2020 (Iran)
    • Country of origin
      • Iran
    • Official sites
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    • Languages
      • Persian
      • Kurdish
      • Azerbaijani
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ceviz Ağacı
    • Filming locations
      • Baneh, Kordestan Province, Iran
    • Production company
      • Iran Air
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      • IRR 2,000,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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