Border Café (2005)

5.7/10 • 105 min • Drama

Overview

A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.

Cast

Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee

Parviz Parastouei

Nikos Papadopoulos

Zakario

Esmail Soltanian

Esmail Soltanian

Karim

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