Grassland (Persian: علفزار, romanized: Alafzār) is a 2022 Iranian drama film directed and written by Kazem Daneshi and produced by Bahram Radan. The film screened for the first time at the 40th Fajr Film Festival and received 8 nominations, 4 awards and an honorary diploma.
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Premise
Sara (Sara Bahrami), the bride of the mayor's family, spends one night with her husband, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law in an unusual garden. The noise of their party catches the attention of the thugs in the area. Thugs attack their ceremonies in the most brutal way possible. The women are sexually assaulted and Sara's husband is stabbed to death. The case investigator (Pejman Jamshidi), who is a committed and responsible man, is pressured by the mayor to close the case quietly. But with Sara's complaint and the investigator's honesty, the situation is different.
Cast
Sara Bahrami as Sara Bababeigi
Pejman Jamshidi as Amir Hossein Besharat
Setareh Pesyani as Shabnam Bababeigi
Tarlan Parvaneh as Elham
Mehdi Zaminpardaz as Mohsen Fardi
Sadaf Espahbodi as Fariba Etehadi
Erfan Naseri as Mehran
Yasna Mirtahmaseb as Sajad
Maedeh Tahmasebi as Hamed's Mother
Roya Javidnia as Mayor's Wife
Matin Heydarinia as Hamed
Farokh Nemati as The Mayor
Mehran Emambakhsh as The Prosecutor
Hojjat Hassanpour as Amirhossein
Elahe Azkari
Setayesh Rajaeinia
Mohammad Motazedi
Mohammad Mehdi Ahadi
Benyamin Norouzi
Adrina Toushe
Hossein Valizadeh
Ali Amir Khalili
Arshia Tavakoli
Sepehr Gandomi