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a Man Who ate his Cherries (Mardi ke gilass hayash ra khord) Memory (Der tag an dem ich meinen toten)
IRAN
Divorce proceedings have left factory worker Reza financially and
GERMANY
Helene is the loving mother of two small children who has supposedly
Director: Payman Haghani emotionally bereft. Plagued by impotence, he has been successfully Director: Matthias Luthardt lost her husband, Robert, in a swimming accident, though his body has
Producer: Amir Samavati sued by his wife in family court and ordered to pay back the dowry she Producers: Christian Drewing,
never been found. Despite the efforts of friends to help her transition
Screenwriters: Payman Haghani,
brought into the marriage. Not only is he terribly alone, but he lives in
Milena Maitz
past the loss, Helene remains steadfastly convinced that Robert is still
Hamid-Reza Keshani dread of the financial reckoning that looms. Screenwriter: Johanna Stuttmann alive. One evening at a classical music concert, she sees a man who
Cinematographer: Farshad Mohammadi Cinematographer: Christian Marohl
bears a striking resemblance to her missing spouse. She is sure that
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Editor: Behrang Sanjabi
Reza is a sweet man whose dire straits are conveyed by his empty
Editor: Florian Miosge
it is actually him, that he has pulled off a gigantic ruse, and that the
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il
Cast: Hassan Pourshirazi,
house: he has been reduced to the basics, endlessly making himself
Cast: Franziska Petri, Pasquale Aleardi,
woman he’s with is a girlfriend he left her for. In a burst of passion,
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Asha Mehrabi, Reza Afshar, eggs, apologizing that he cannot pay the plumber who has fixed his Harry Blank, Sandra Borgmann
she leaps at him, first in joy, then in fury. Her attack is met with bewil-
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Maryam Khodarahmi
toilet, and sitting in the dark, awash in streetlight. As he casts around in
2008 / color, b&w / 82 min.
derment, as the man insists he isn’t who she thinks he is. But neither
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2009 / color, b&w / 77 min. desperation for a solution to his problem, he runs into a coworker who of them can ignore the inherent drama of the situation or deny their
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lost his fingers in a factory accident – and received substantial insurance attraction to each other. As they become involved, Helene appears to
compensation for it. It is hard for Reza to forget the man’s screams,
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waver on the edge of sanity. She tries to find her Robert in a man who
PaYMan haGhani the way he was clumsily dispatched to the hospital, and the breakroom Matthias Luthardt studied rhetoric as presents himself as a stranger, while he tries to talk her through this
Born in Tehran in 1982, Payman
rumors that he faked the injury to get the money – and yet it is also
well as German and French literature
apparent mystery. She may have lost her mind – or he may be a mon-
Haghani began primary school as
hard for him to forget his own penury. The decision cannot be put
in Paris and Hamburg. He then went on
ster. Their story may be about the ways in which we cope with terrible
the Iran-Iraq war came to an end. to study filmmaking at Film Academy
After dropping out of college,
off: he must confront the final figures of the settlement in light of his
Baden-Württemberg/FEMIS Paris
betrayal – or the ways in which we negotiate extraordinary grief.
Haghani started pursuing a career
options, all of which seem bad.
and the German School for Cinema
in filmmaking. He has made several and Television. His first feature film, As atmospheric and disconcerting as its discordant contemporary music
short films and documentaries and
Not yet 30, Tehran-born director Payman Haghani has already estab-
Pingpong, premiered in the Critics
soundtrack, this intelligent and quietly compelling thriller locates
collaborated with other filmmakers as
lished a solid career in the Iranian film industry, with both editorial
Week at Cannes 2006, winning the
suspense in questions of absolute and relational identity. German
an editor and director of photography. SACD Screenwriting award and the
director Matthias Luthardt’s first feature, Pingpong, won two awards
A Man Who Ate His Cherries is his
and DP as well as directorial credits to his name. This is his first feature
Young Critics Award.
feature debut.
narrative. at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, including the Young Critics Award
for Best Feature.
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