50 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
LatestThe police get a photo of a woman through the building's former caretaker. On the other hand, Major Sharifi asks Shoka to treat his mother, but...
On the night of his wife's birthday, Dr. Shoka Mehrjui encounters mysterious events, including the disappearance of one of their neighbors. A major named Behrouz Sharifi notices the connection between this story and the disappearance of other people and comes up with clues that gradually lead the case to a complicated and unusual path.
Acting
Maadi's exhausted authority vs. Izadyar's unraveling composure.
Direction
Fathi stretches birthday-night dread across thirteen episodes of dread.
Cinematography
Tehran's nocturnal geometry hides as much as it reveals.
Creator
Hassan Fathi
Payman Maadi
Major Behrouz Sharifi
Parinaz Izadyar
Shuka Mehrjooi
Babak Hamidian
Mani Pasha
Ali Mosaffa
Gohar Kheyrandish
Mihri
Behrang Alavi
Mehran
Babak Karimi
Mohammad Bahrani
Parviz
Mahmoud Pakniat
Pasha Jamali
Hamid
Maryam Saadat
Ms. Akhavan
Elham Korda
Munir
Hediyeh Azidhak
Ehteram Boroumand
Sharif's mother
Zahra Farahani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fathi deliberately mirrors 1970s Iranian new wave paranoia films, updated for a surveillance-state era.
The birthday dinner sequence was filmed in a single 47-minute take that required three city blocks of coordinated lighting.
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