A Hero

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Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Produced by Asghar Farhadi and Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Written by Asghar Farhadi

With: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sahar Goldust, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Ehsan Goodarzi, Sarina Farhadi, Maryam Shahdaei, Alireza Jahandideh, Farrokh Nourbakht, Mohammad Aghebati, Saleh Karimaei, Ali Ranjbari, Fatemeh Tavakoli, and Amir Amiri

Cinematography: Ali Ghazi and Arash Ramezani
Editing: Hayedeh Safiyari

Runtime: 127 min
Release Date: 15 December 2021
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color

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Amir Jadidi plays a man on a two-day leave from debtors prison trying to satisfy his creditor in yet another rich, morally complex drama from Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman, Everybody Knows), whose films never deal in simple binary concepts like "heroes and villains," but explore the vast array of motives that drive human behaviour and how faulty institutional structures heighten interpersonal conflict.

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