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Secret ballot
Title
Secret ballot / a Sony Pictures Classics release, in co-production with Rai Cinema and TSI-Televisione Svizzera ; a film by Babak Payami.
Publication
New York, NY : Sony Pictures Classics, 2001.
Physical Description
1 online resource (106 min.)
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Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed January 05, 2017).
Director of photography, Farzad Jodat ; sound designer, Michael Billingsley ; sound recordist, Yadollah Najafi ; original music, Michael Galasso ; editor, Babak Karimi.
In Farsi with English subtitles.
Won 2002 Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island Jury Award, Best Feature Film
Won 2002 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netpac Award - Special Mention
Won 2001 Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Special Jury Award
Won 2001 Valladolid International Film Festival, Best New Director
Won 2001 Venice Film Festival, Netpac Award
Won 2001 Venice Film Festival, OCIC Award
Won 2001 Venice Film Festival Pasinetti Award, Best Film
Won 2001 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion, Best Director
Won 2001 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion, UNICEF Award
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Summary
An unsuspecting soldier awakens to discover that he can forget about another uneventful day at his lonely seaside post. It's Election Day! A ballot box is parachuted down as a young woman pulls up to the shore of the remote island. To the soldier’s surprise, she’s actually the government bureaucrat in charge of local voting. The couple gets off to a rocky start since the soldier expects election agents to be men. Whether he wants to or not, the soldier is thrown into an elections adventure that just may put him out of a job. Orders from above force him to accompany the female agent in an army jeep across the island's dusty desert. The agent literally leaves no stone unturned in her search for ballots. Many a surprise lies along their route, as they find themselves in one absurd situation after another. So much can happen in a single day, especially when opposites attract. Views can change, hearts can melt. By sunset, a woman's idealistic notions can come back down to earth.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Persian
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2020
Credits
Director of photography, Farzad Jodat ; sound designer, Michael Billingsley ; sound recordist, Yadollah Najafi ; original music, Michael Galasso ; editor, Babak Karimi.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Feature films.
Also listed under
Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), presenter.
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