Prisoners (2018 film)

Prisoners is an Iranian feature film directed, written and produced by Masoud Dehnamaki; it was released in 2018. The film is a comedy and satire with a social theme and moral meaning. The film is also referred to in English as Executions (with a 2019 release date).^[8]

Prisoners
Directed by	Masoud Dehnamaki[1][2][3][4]
Written by	Masoud Dehnamaki
Produced by	Dehnamaki, Masoud
Edited by	Khashayar Movahedian
Production company	Owj Arts and Media Organization
Distributed by	Owj Arts and Media Organization
Release date	16 March 2018 (2018-03-16)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Iran[5][6][7]
Language	Persian

Premise

A student plans to research the prisoners of Qasr Prison for his thesis.

Cast

• Behnam Tashakkor
• Hooman Barghnavard
• Hedayat Hashemi
• Bahareh Afshari
• Behnoosh Bakhtiari
• Asghar Naghizadeh
• Rasoul Najafian
• Amir Nouri

Technical team

Other makers/members of this film include producer and director: Masoud Dehnamaki, project manager: Alireza Najafzadeh, production manager: Amir Ebrahimi, director of photography: Farshad Gol-Sefidi, makeup designer: Shahram Khalaj, sound engineer: Farshid Ahmadi, editor: Khashayar Movahedian, set and costume designer: Behzad Jafari, planner and first assistant director: Omid Jezini, media consultant: Omid Sohrabi, field special effects: Iman Karamian, visual special effects: Saeed Khalili, photographer: Hassan Shojaei, procurement manager: Javad Ghasemi, produced by the Film and Series Center of the Owj Arts and Media Organization.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Production

The film was shot at the Qasr prison.^[11]

In an interview, direction Dehnamaki stated that he intended to portray the impact of spirituality on prisoners in this film.^[13][14]