Dastoor-e Ashpazi (2010)

Name: Dastoor-e Ashpazi
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-03-10T18:10:02+01:00
Cast: Mohammad Shirvani

Documentary | 72 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 72 minuten

Alternative title: Iranian Cookbook

Country: Iran

Directed by: Mohammad Shirvani

Stars: Mohammad Shirvani

IMDb score: 6,5 (41)

Releasedate: 16 February 2010

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Dastoor-e Ashpazi plot

In Iran, women have to cook for their husbands and children all their lives. They don't like the fact that they always have to cook, but the six housewives filmed in "Iranian Cookbook" preparing Iftar - the meal eaten after sunset during the fasting month of Ramadan - all love them wholeheartedly. to cook. They chat about their kitchen secrets in a relaxed manner and they move through their familiar terrain with routine. Filmmaker Mohammed Shirvani filmed his sister, his aunts and his mother's friends. The often (by Western standards) difficult lives of the women are explained almost in passing. With well-placed questions, Shirvani slowly steers the women in the direction of the actual subject: the position of women in Iranian culture. The insights that the women provide are rarely personal and meaningful.