Product Details

• Actors: Jasmin Tabatabai, Navíd Akhavan, Bernd Tauber, Majid Farahat, Georg Friedrich
• Directors: Angelina Maccarone
• Writers: Judith Kaufmann, Angelina Maccarone
• Producers: Markus Fischer, Ulrike Zimmermann
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: German (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Wolfe Video
• DVD Release Date: April 18, 2006
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EGEKVK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,199 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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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

Product Description

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.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent cross-cultural film with a twist , January 5, 2008

By	K. Jeannette (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

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.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good, May 11, 2006

By	glitterbaby "glitter" - See all my reviews

I think this movie was pretty good. It kind of reminded me of Boys don't cry. Its about a girl who flees Iran, for her love of another woman, and if she returns she is executed. She goes to Germany disguised as a man, and falls in love with a girl. The girl finds out shes a girl and still loves her but the girls ex- husband is upset. I wont tell you more, but the ending kind of leaves you hanging. There is an okay love-making scence. I would reconmend it!

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty decent, June 3, 2006

By	J.T. Sheldon "www.myspace.com/jtsheldon" (Beaver County, PA - USA) - See all my reviews

it was touching...
i cut one star becuase it kind of moves along slow, it's emotional and nice, but slow... until the end. that's when it gets really good.