In defiance of Iran's crackdown, an Iranian drama about a septuagenarian's late-life romance becomes an unlikely global hit.
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The Iranian government confiscated the directors' passports and banned them from attending the film's Berlin premiere, but a cardboard portrait of the two directors took their place.
Despite lacking a U.S. distribution deal, the crowd-pleasing film has found success worldwide, earning over $250,000 in the UK, 100,000 admissions in Germany and Austria, and 40,000 admissions in Sweden.