- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Aug 9, 2002
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- Starring: Cyrus Abidi, Nassim Abdi
- Summary: Set on election day in a remote area of Iran, this is the story of a conservative soldier (Abidi) and the liberal female pollster (Abdi) he is assigned to work with as they seek out voters.
- Director: Babak Payami
- Genre(s): Comedy
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100Payami's gentle comedy captures a subtle range of human feelings through a quietly inventive visual style that embodies the best life-affirming tendencies of modern Iranian film.
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80A psychic journey deep into the very fabric of Iranian (and by extension, all) life.
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80The film's spare wit is as applicable to Broward County as to the Persian Gulf. Secret Ballot offers further evidence that an Islamic regime can foster humanist satires with a critical, political edge.
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Too contemplative to be really funny.
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