Unveiled
by Angelina Maccarone
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Actor: Bernd Tauber, Georg Friedrich, Jasmin Tabatabai, Majid Farahat, Nav?d AkhavanDirector: Angelina Maccarone
Brand: WOLFE VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Persian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Wolfe Video
Movie Reviews of Unveiled
Movie Review: Excellent cross-cultural film with a twist
Summary: 5 Stars
Enjoying foreign films of all types, I found this one extremely interesting and rewarding. It starts with the difficulties of refugees in Germany: will they be able to stay or will they be sent back? Fariba is in Germany having fled Iran because of a lesbian affair for which she was imprisoned by the authorities, now awaiting her fate at the hands of German authorities. To stay in Germany she takes the place of a young man who died, gets work illegally in a factory where she meets a woman named Anne, and deals with difficulties posing as a man and working illegally. She is neither triumphant nor defeated through this experience, producing a very realistic feeling in an unusual and absorbing story. I liked it very much.
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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