Madar (1991)
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Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farimah Farjami, Amin Tarokh, Akbar Abdi
An elderly woman returns from a nursing home to spend her final days at home and asks her six children to gather there despite their disagreements.
The story
After returning from a nursing home to her house for the final days of her life, an elderly woman tells her six children she wants them to join her at their old family home. Each child is absorbed in their own life, and the siblings have disagreements with one another. Her presence brings them together as the story introduces the family.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
An elderly woman living in a nursing home returns to her house to spend the final days of her life there, alongside her children, each of whom is absorbed in their own life. The warmth of their mother’s presence brings the children together, and the film introduces the story’s characters in the process. The mother, who lives in a nursing home, informs her six children that she wants to see them at their old family home during the last days she has left. The children, each at odds with another for one reason or another, gather once more, reminisce about the happy days of their childhood, and meanwhile witness their mother eagerly preparing for her journey to the afterlife.
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