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Iron Island

Iron Island

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 5, 2005

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

جزیره آهنی

Production Companies

Sheherazad Media International, Farabi Cinema

Director

Mohammad Rasoulof

Description

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?