Hemlock
Shokaran, feature film, Iran, 2000
DIRECTED BY: Behrouz Afkhami
CAST:
Hedyeh Tehrani (Sima),
Fariborz Arabnia (Mahmoud),
Rozita Ghaffari (Taraneh),
Mohammad Salehala
SCRIPT:
Minoo Farshchi
Synopsis:
Manager Mahmoud’s boss Khakpour tells him that some unfamiliar people offered him a bribe to help them buy the factory in which both he and Mahmoud work. Soon Khakpour gets injured in a car accident and Mahmoud replaces him at work. He also has to deal with the critical financial situation of the factory. When visiting his boss in the hospital, he meets the nurse Sima with whom he has an emotionally unstable affair.
This is sort of an Iranian version of Fatal Attraction, which in the director’s homeland caused many controversies as well as a huge number of viewers
color, 86 min