Walnut Tree

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Walnut Tree

2020

1h 40m

7.0(13 votes)

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War

Crime

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Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...

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10 featured cast members

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Payman Maadi

Qader

Mina Sadati

Homa

Mehran Modiri

Doctor Ahmad

Minoo Sharifi

Maryam

Zhina Zahedi

Amir Arsalan Alebouyeh

Moslem

Sasan Saeedi

Mahdi

Masoud Naziri

Mohsen

Amir Bay

Ashkan

Nazila Amini

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Directed by: Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian
Written by: Hossein Hassani
Ebrahim Amini
Produced by: Mostafa Ahmadi

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