Through The Olive Trees- Abbas | Kiarostami Fix

Kiarostami builds the film around this contradiction: Hossein and Tahereh must repeatedly rehearse a scene where, as fictional characters, they look lovingly at each other and speak as husband and wife. Between takes, Hossein pleads his real case, while Tahereh remains silent and avoids eye contact.

: The plot centers on a director (played by Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz) filming a scene in the earthquake-ravaged region of Koker. The Unrequited Romance Through the olive trees- Abbas Kiarostami

The film employs a "film-within-a-film" structure, depicting a film crew returning to the village of Koker to shoot a scene from Kiarostami's previous work, And Life Goes On . The plot follows , a local laborer cast as an actor, who is desperately in love with his leading lady, Tahereh . ) is shooting a scene in earthquake-ravaged northern Iran

A film crew (from And Life Goes On... ) is shooting a scene in earthquake-ravaged northern Iran. The director hires local non-professionals. A young bricklayer, Hossein, is cast as the husband, opposite a young woman, Tahereh, who plays his wife. Off-camera, Hossein is in love with Tahereh, but she is literate, from a higher-status family, and refuses even to speak to him because he is illiterate and has no house. Hossein is in love with Tahereh