Daughters of the Sun (2004)

Name: Daughters of the Sun
Genre: Drama
Released: 2004-07-29

1h 32m

Running Time

Plot.

Amangol (Altinay Ghelich Taghani) is the eldest daughter in a poor rural family. To help support them, her head is shaven and begins work as a boy named Aman in an isolated carpet weaving shop. The girls who work there are beaten by the owner, as is Aman, toiling at the loom until their hands bleed. As a male apprentice, he supervises the girls and lives in the shop, locked in and isolated.

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Cast & Crew.

Altinay Ghelich Taghani

Soghra Karimi

Zahra Mohammadi

Habib Haddad

Shahnaz Shahbazi

Maryam Shahriar

Director / Writer

Jahangir Kosari

Producer

Hossein Alizadeh

Composer

Homayun Payvar

Cinematographer

Shahrzad Pouya

Editor

Details.

Release Date
July 29, 2004

Original Name
دختران خورشید

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 32m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-20

Wiki.

Daughters of the Sun (Persian: دختران خورشید Dokhtaran-e khorshid) is the harrowing and challenging tale of a young woman shorn of her femininity and sent as a boy to a squalid carpet workshop, where a young woman falls in love with her. The movie is a 2000 Iranian drama written and directed by Mariam Shahriar with Altinay Ghelich Taghani and Soghra Karimi in the lead. The movie was noted for successfully depicting the hardships faced by women in the rural economic conditions of Iran.