
A House Built on Water 2002
"The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity"
Overview
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical o
Director: Bahman Farmanara
Cast

Reza Kianian
Dr. Reza Sepidbakht

Hedie Tehrani
Jale Tirandaz

Ezzatollah Entezami
Dr. Sepidbakht's father

Jamshid Mashayekhi
Dr. Latifian

Bita Farrahi
Mrs. Taleghani

Behnaz Jafari
Mojgan Ahadi

Roya Nownahali
Mrs. Mohammadi

Shabnam Toloui
Secretary

Hossein Kasbian
Jale's father

Mohsen Ghazi Moradi