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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 04/03/2023
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... Go to Full Review Kathleen Sachs Chicago Reader 02/11/2023
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. Go to Full Review Amarsanaa Battulga View of the Arts 08/01/2024
5/5
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. Go to Full Review Walter Chaw Film Freak Central 01/04/2024
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. Go to Full Review Frank J. Avella Awards Daily 12/27/2022
A
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. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 10/11/2022
4/5
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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Mousashi Aug 11 The movie has a deep message. The story progression and ending are very wonderful. See more Read all reviews
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Houman Seyyedi

Director

Mohsen Tanabandeh

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Neda Jebraeili

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Mahsa Hejazi

Actor

Navid Nosrati

Actor

Houman Seyyedi

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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
Distributor
Deaf Crocodile / MVD
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller, War
Original Language
Persian
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 27, 2025
Runtime
1h 47m
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