The Circle (2000)
Dayereh (original title)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Nargess Mamizadeh	...	Nargess
	Maryiam Palvin Almani	...	Arezou (as Maryam Parvin Almani)
	Mojgan Faramarzi	...	Mojgan - Prostitute
	Elham Saboktakin	...	Elham - Nurse
	Monir Arab	...	Monir - Ticket Seller
	Maedeh Tahmasebi	...	Maedeh (as Maedeh Tahmasbi)
	Maryam Shayegan	...	Parveneh
	Khadijeh Moradi
	Negar Ghadyani
	Solmaz Panahi	...	Solmaz
	Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy	...	Pari (as Fereshteh Sadr Orafai)
	Fatemeh Naghavi	...	Nayer
	Ataollah Moghadas	...	Haji
	Abbas Alizadeh	...	Father of Pari

Storyline

In a hospital waiting room a woman learns her daughter, Solmaz Gholami, has just given birth. The ultrasound test had prepared the family for a boy. The baby, it turns out, is a girl. The joy the mother anticipated turns to terror for she knows her son-in-law's family will abandon her daughter. The old woman flees as the in-laws arrive. On the crowded streets of Tehran - a place where women are not permitted to stay out on their own or smoke in public - two women are also on the run. Arezou and Nargess have just been granted temporary leave from prison but they have no plans to return. They manage to scrounge together enough money for the bus trip to Nargess' hometown, but she lacks proper identification, and the police are searching everyone at the station. Meanwhile, their friend Pari has just escaped from prison in order to have an abortion. Threatened with death by her brothers... Written by Anonymous  

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