The Salesman

Synopsis

Following the sudden structural evacuation of their cracked Tehran apartment building, an intellectual young couple performing lead roles in an amateur production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman move into a temporary flat previously rented by an escort, where the wife is assaulted in the shower by a confused former client, sending her gentle husband on an obsessive, destructive vigilante quest for vengeance. Asghar Farhadi's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Cannes Best Screenplay & Best Actor-winning moral thriller starring Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti.