A Simple Event
Cast
Non-professional actors
Credits
Written by: Azadeh Abbasifar 
Omid Roohani 
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cinematography: Naghi Ma'soomi
Editing: Kazem Rajinia
Plot
A day in the life of a schoolboy in a poor fishing village on the Persian Gulf, who delivers eggs and cares for his sick mother.
Sinekatalog’s take
Sohrab Shahid-Saless's quiet film follows a boy in a poor Persian Gulf fishing village who sells eggs, goes to school and cares for his sick mother. Spare, patient and moving, with non-professional actors, it is an influential work of Iranian neorealism.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.4 / 10 (784 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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