Border Café

Border Café

Café Transit
🎞️ Movie 107 min IR
โ˜… 7.3 /10 2005

An independently-minded Iranian widow and mother flouts tradition by re-opening her late husband's Europe/Asia border café in this socially-oriented drama from director Kambozia Partovi. In the wake of her husband's death, Reyhan (Fereshtei Sadre Orafaei) longs to re-open her late spouse's café despite rigid social standards that explicitly discourage her from doing so. Isolated from her friends and neighbors for her headstrong efforts to get the business back on her feet, Reyhan also faces pressure from her conservative brother-in-law Nasser (Parviz Parastoei) -- who longs to take Reyhan as his second wife as permitted by custom. Despite Nasser's vengeful efforts to break Reyhan's spirit and put her out of business, Reyhan's culinary skills soon begin drawing a healthy clientèle that includes kindly Greek trucker Zakariyo (Nikolas Padapopoulis); whose relationship with the determined restaurateur may provide an exit from her current crisis.

Cast

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Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Reyhan
Parviz Parastui
Parviz Parastui
Nasser
Nikos Papadopoulos
Nikos Papadopoulos
Zakario
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Svieta Mikalishina
Svieta
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Kostas Vantzos
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Esmail Soltanian
Oujan
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Jafar Vahabpour
Karim
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Rana Karmanshahi
Leila
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Zahra Jalilzadeh
Sara
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Mehtab Talebi
Zoleykhah
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Ali Birang
Composer
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Peyman Yazdanian
Composer
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Mohamad Reza Sokoot
Cinematographer