Starring Hosseini, The Salesman got the Best Screenplay during the 69th edition of the festival Sunday and brought the Iranian superstar the Best Actor.
Iranian actress Taraneh Alidousti was also present at the closing ceremony of the festival in the southern French city.
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(From L) Iranian actress Taraneh Alidousti, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini pose as they arrive for the closing ceremony.[/caption]Premiered Saturday, the movie (titled Forushande in Persian) portrays Raana (Alidousti) and Emad (Hosseini), a couple who are acting in the Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
Shot in the capital Tehran, it deals with the husbands situation after an attack on his wife.
"This prize belongs to my people, so I give it to them," Hosseini said.
The 42-year-old actor won Silver Bear for Best Actor as well as Fajr Film Festival Simorgh for Best Actor for another film by Farhadi, Nader and Simin, A Separation, in 2011.
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(From L) Iranian script-girl Parisa Gorgin, editor Hayedeh Safiyari, actor Farid Sajjadihosseini, director of photography Hossein Jafarian, actor Babak Karimi, actress Taraneh Alidousti, director Asghar Farhadi, actor Shahab Hosseini and French producer and distributor Alexandre Mallet-Guy pose on May 21, 2016 during a photocall for the film.[/caption]The movie grabbed global attention as it became the first Iranian film to win an Oscar, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, also bagging the Golden Globe Award for best international film.
Farhadis the Past (Le Pass) had been nominated for a Palme dOr in 2013.
By Press TV
