Salaam Cinema

1995 · 75 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 2,269 VOTES · DIR. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Salaam Cinema poster

Overview

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

DocumentaryDramaComedy1990s

Dialogue Timeline — 1,066 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:04 Dedicated to the Centenary Year of Cinema
00:07:35 Isn't it better with the gIasses?
00:09:55 over his mother's death.
00:12:17 Put your gIasses back on. You can go now.
00:15:10 - For reaI? - Yes.
00:18:53 Can you cry?
00:21:29 but...
00:24:25 I can't do anything for you. Go away.
00:26:56 Are you joking?
00:30:13 He's aIready crying as I'm sure you can see.
00:32:40 A Iot of peopIe teII me I Iook Iike
00:36:21 What part wouId you give yourseIf?
00:38:52 I'm a tradesman and I do odd jobs.
00:41:13 I'd Iike to be in fiIms. I can't wait any Ionger.
00:43:38 Who do you think acted the best among you aII?
00:46:25 every week I read aII the movie magazines.
00:49:22 Move one pace apart.
00:52:27 I don't beIieve it.
00:54:56 If you manage to cry, then you're reaI artists.
00:57:42 Those who act weII in Iife and in fiIms are successfuI.
01:00:30 The probIem is that when peopIe want to Iaugh, they start to cry.
01:03:13 If the cinema refIects on Iife, then there's room for everyone.
01:06:30 Be reasonabIe.
01:09:19 Processed by C.M.C. - Paris

Cast & Characters

Shaghayeh Djodat Self Behzad Dorani Self Feizola Gashghai Self Maryam Keyhan Self Mohsen Makhmalbaf Self M.H. Mokhtarian Self Kambiz Shabankare Self Mirhadi Tayebi Self Azadeh Zanganeh Self Moharram Zaynalzadeh Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,066
Dialogue density14.2 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line01:09:19

Production Record

DirectorMohsen Makhmalbaf
LanguagePersian
IMDb votes2,269