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Lantouri
Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.
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Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.
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Genre:Romance, Drama
Written By:Reza Dormishian
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Runtime:115 minutes
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Cast
Reza Dormishian
Director
Baran Kosari
Baroon
Navid Mohammadzadeh
Pasha
Maryam Palizban
Maryam
Reza Behboudi
Doctor
Mehdi Koushki
Malak
Behnaz Jafari
Maryam's friend (Social Activist)
Fatemeh Naghavi
Murdered Girl's mother
Parivash Nazarieh
Attorney
Nader Fallah
Witness
Ardeshir Rostami
Sociologist
Hossein Pakdel
The Judge
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