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Iron Island 2005 Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof جزیره آهنی

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?

Country Iran
Production Country Iran
Language Persian
Spoken Language Persian
Gnere Drama
Release Date 5 October 2005
86 mins