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Iron Island

Iron Island

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Drama
📜 Overview: 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?
🌏 Languages Available: Persian
📆 Date Released: 2005-10-05
⌚ Running Time: 90 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.3

Beloved Cast

Ali Nasirian original image
Captain Nemat
Ali Nasirian
Hossein Farzi-Zadeh original image
Ahmad
Hossein Farzi-Zadeh
Neda Pakdaman original image
The girl
Neda Pakdaman

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