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A Separation | Official Trailer HD (2011)

A Separation(2011)
Released
2011 · FILM

A Separation

A Tehran couple’s marriage unravels as the wife fights to escape a country while the husband refuses to abandon his ailing, wandering father, forcing both families into a desperate battle over love, duty, and survival.

“Ugly truth, sweet lies.”

Directed by
Asghar Farhadi
Written by
Asghar Farhadi
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
123 min
Language
FA
Drama

Synopsis

A married couple must decide whether to relocate to another country to improve their child’s prospects or remain in Iran to care for an aging parent whose health is declining due to Alzheimer’s disease.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hayedeh SafiyariShot by Mahmoud KalariScored by Sattar OrakiDesigned by Keyvan Moghaddam

Box Office

2011 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$24.4M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$24.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $7.1M — 29% of worldwide · International: $17.3M (71%)

Opening weekend: $59K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $105K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Jodaeiye Nader az Siminde
  • Nader und Siminde
  • Nader und Simin - Eine Trennungde
  • Nader und Simin – Eine Trennungde
  • A Separationen
  • Jodaeiye Nader az Siminen
  • Nader and Simin, A Separationen
  • Nader y Simín, una separaciónes
  • Une séparationfr
  • Una separazioneit

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