A Separation
Ugly truth, sweet lies.
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
- Director
- Asghar Farhadi
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
- Worldwide
- $24M
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A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
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Box Office & Release
A Separation returned 4.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $5M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $24M
- Release date
- Feb 15, 2011
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- Persian
- Country
- France, Iran
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