‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’: Read The Screenplay For The Movie That Mohammad Rasoulof Shot In Secret And Forced Him To Flee Iran
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about films continues with the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Neon‘s dramatic thriller, written and directed by Iranian Mohammad Rasoulof, which just made the Oscar shortlist as Germany’s entry into the Best International Feature race.
Below, read the screenplays for both the English- and Farsi-language versions of the film, which Neon opened in select U.S. theaters at the end of November.
It has since scored Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominations for top foreign-language film, and was the National Board of Review‘s Best International Film winner.
The film follows a family thrust into the spotlight when Iman (Misagh Zareh), a newly appointed investigating judge in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, becomes a target.
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