A House Built on Water
2002, Persian. Directed by Bahman Farmanara.
The midlife crisis of a successful professional man is put into the perspective of eternity
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Persian
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Cast & crew
- Bahman FarmanaraDirector
- Reza KianianDr. Reza Sepidbakht
- Hedie TehraniJale Tirandaz
- Ezzatollah EntezamiDr. Sepidbakht's father
- Jamshid MashayekhiDr. Latifian
- Bita FarrahiMrs. Taleghani
- Behnaz JafariMojgan Ahadi
- Roya NownahaliMrs. Mohammadi
- Shabnam TolouiSecretary
- Hossein KasbianJale's father
- Mohsen Ghazi MoradiCast
- Mehran RajabiCast
- Qasem ZareCast
Details
- Released
- 1 April 2002
- Original title
- خانه ای روی آب
- Country
- Iran
- Written by
- Bahman Farmanara
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A House Built on Water runs 111 minutes (1h 51m).
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A House Built on Water isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 April 2002. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed A House Built on Water?
A House Built on Water (2002) was directed by Bahman Farmanara and stars Reza Kianian, Hedie Tehrani, Ezzatollah Entezami.