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World War III

2022 1h 47m Comedy Drama War List
100% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 67% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes to his workplace begging for help. Shakib's scheme to hide her goes tragically wrong and threatens to ruin his newfound status and what seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Namrata Joshi The New Indian Express Like Parasite it invokes endemic inequities through architectural verticality. Like the semi-basements and bunkers in Korea, the dispossessed are confined under the earth, the Netherworld of sorts in the Iranian film... Apr 3, 2023 Full Review Kathleen Sachs Chicago Reader The questions it raises—as to what’s going on, who’s telling the truth, and the degree to which parallels between the movie in the film and Shakib’s dilemma are intentional—certainly account for a heightened level of ambiguity. Feb 11, 2023 Full Review Amarsanaa Battulga View of the Arts Bound to surprise audiences and bag awards, World War III is a film that makes you look forward to the next film that rhymes, if not repeats, its brilliance. Rated: 5/5 Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Walter Chaw Film Freak Central It shouldn't work, but it works like a Swiss timepiece, clicking along invisibly and betraying nothing while moving through a series of events that are at once entirely unpredictable and the only things that could possibly happen in hindsight. Jan 4, 2024 Full Review Frank J. Avella Awards Daily Houman Seyedi’s startling, audacious and truly entrancing satire, World War III, deserved (Oscar) consideration...Seyedi and (his) co-screenwriters searingly comment on power, class and how everyone has a breaking point. And the ending is priceless. Rated: A Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Both sharply conceived and agonizingly performed, Seyyedi... presents a hot blast of social issue semantics defined by a direct conduit with a criminal underbelly often downplayed significantly in modern Iranian cinema. Rated: 4/5 Oct 11, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes to his workplace begging for help. Shakib's scheme to hide her goes tragically wrong and threatens to ruin his newfound status and what seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime.
Director
Houman Seyyedi
Producer
Houman Seyyedi
Screenwriter
Houman Seyyedi, Arian Vazirdaftari, Azad Jafarian
Genre
Comedy, Drama, War
Original Language
Persian
Runtime
1h 47m