Unveiled
by Angelina Maccarone
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Actor: Bernd Tauber, Georg Friedrich, Jasmin Tabatabai, Majid Farahat, Navíd AkhavanDirector: Angelina Maccarone
Brand: Wolfe
Cinematographer: Judith Kaufmann
Writer: Judith Kaufmann
Writer: Angelina Maccarone
Editor: Bettina Böhler
Producer: Markus Fischer
Producer: Ulrike Zimmermann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Persian (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Wolfe Video
Product features:
- Fariba, prosecuted in Iran because of her love affair with another woman, flees to Germany. Her application for asylum is turned down - but her desperate prospects are improved by the suicide of her fellow inmate Siamak. She assumes his identity and, using his temporary permit of sojourn, heads off to a provincial village. At first glance, her survival seems to be assured, but in the refugee hoste
Movie Reviews of Unveiled
Movie Review: Great foreign movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I honestly didn't know exactly what to expect from this movie, and I had my doubts and reservations because of its delicate subject. The only movie I had seen before dealing with this kind of subject was Boy's don't cry, and I honestly didn't have the stomach to watch it all through. I had to stand up and leave the movie theater when the rape scene started. However this movie, Unveiled, has a more digestible story. It's a harsh and depressing story no less, but with a better ending (as sad as it might be). The mood is gloomy and sad, which goes well with the story happening on screen. And looking at other realities such as these does help you put your own life in perspective, especially if you are a woman.
The movie is about a woman who flees Iran for being condemned and threatened with death after getting involved with another woman. She arrives to Germany hopeful to be received as a political refugee, but they don't grant her the stay. Opportunity knocks on her door when she befriends another male refugee who dies. She then steals his identity and gets to stay as a man in Germany for undefined time. She only manages to get some minor jobs with small pay because she doesn't have papers. In a factory she meets Anne, a young single mother, and her obtuse friends. She gets involved with Anne as a man, but eventually comes out clean revealing her true identity. All along she works towards getting papers to stay or move somewhere else. Things unravel in unexpected ways and she ends up returning to her home country, but with a new identity.
It is a slow movie, but a very good one no less. So, if you are patient enough, and enjoy foreign cinema, you might enjoy it.
Summary of Unveiled
Fabria, prosecuted in Iran because of her love affair with another woman, flees to Germany. Her application for asylum is turned down-but her desperate prospects are improved by the suicide of her fellow inmate Siamak. She assumes his identity and, using his temporary permit of sojourn, heads off to a provincial village. At first glance, her survival seems to be assured, but in the refugee hostel, she is obliged to uphold her male disguise in cramped quarters and a single mistake could blow her cover. In order to pay for forged documents, she takes an illegal job in a sauerkraut factory, where she meets Anne, who is very solicitous about Siamak?s well-being and derives some kind of pleasure from the strange foreigner. While spending more and more time together, they become dangerously close and Anne begins to suspect Fariba?s true identity, and Fariba?s fate falls into danger when she is faced with being forced to return to Iran.Life is extremely unfair in director Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled, a movie exposing the flawed logic inherent in Iran's laws against lesbians. In this sad film, Tehranian Fariba Tabrizi (Jasmin Tabatabai) is forced to flee Iran when threatened with the death penalty for loving another woman, and even then she must assume a male identity in order to live temporarily in Germany. Working menial jobs, Fariba, a.k.a. Siamak, tries in vain to save money for a legitimate passport, all the while experiencing the hardships that go along with being a "male" foreigner. When Siamak begins to date Anne (Anneke Kim Sarnau), a married woman whose growing involvement with an illegal alien causes dismay among her small-minded German friends, the plot quickly complicates. Anne discovers Fariba's true identity once she faces return to Iran, and the two hatch a plan to ensure Fariba's safety. Unfortunately, Fariba does returns to Iran, and her female identity must forever remain a secret. Touching scenes between Fariba and Anne make the futility of Fariba's efforts toward happiness that much more disturbing, as the viewer becomes frustrated that this highly-educated woman is isolated from her gender and culture. Unveiled transcends its focus on female relationships, since the universal nature of Fariba's quest for a new life applies to any refugee. Maccarone's thoughtful treatment of double-prejudice makes this unpleasant story easier to stomach, as a lesson in compassion and acceptance of those different from ourselves. ?Trinie Dalton
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