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A comic feature film about an underachieving writer who sets out to write his masterpiece, but is confounded when one of its characters steps into his real life and introduces him to a life of sin and corruption.
Iran Is My Land
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.
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Behzad Khodaveisi Sohrab
Saeed Poursamimi Karmand
Parviz Shahinkhou Hafez / Old man 2
Mehdi Faghih Saadi
Hooshang Jafari Ferdowsi
Masume Eskandari
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