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Under the Skin of the City

Under the Skin of the City

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 4, 2001

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Drama

User Score

70%

Original Title

زیر پوست شهر

Production Companies

Farabi Cinema

Director

Rakhshan Banietemad

Description

Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.