Walnut Tree

Walnut Tree (2020)

درخت گردو

Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...

Date of release
2020-02-01
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, History, War, Crime
Director
Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian

Casting

Interesting facts

Walnut Tree is a 2020 Iranian biographical war drama film directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian and written by Ebrahim Amini and Hossein Hassani. it revolves around the Chemical bombing of Sardasht of 1987. The film screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival and received 11 nominations. Mahdavian won a Crystal Simorgh for Best Director and Maadi won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor for his performance.

Production

I have always tried to make a national film, but I am accused that my films are in defense of the government. But Walnut Tree is both patriotic and a critique of governance.‌

For the visual space of the story, old Negative and different cameras have been used for each time period. For the 1987 scenes, a 16mm Eclair camera was used. A 35mm camera was used for the 2005 sequences and an Arri digital camera was used for the 2017 sequences.

This was the first simultaneous use of three filming formats in Iranian cinema.

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