2012
Olive Films
1 h 30 m

2012
Olive Films
1 h 30 m

Summary Recently released from prison, Ali attempts to make the most of his return to Tehran, amidst much talk of the upcoming elections and promises of change. Forced to work nights, he still tries to spend as much time as he can with his wife and their young daughter, escaping the stress of urban life through hunting trips to the secluded fore...

Directed By: Rafi Pitts

Written By: Rafi Pitts

2012
Olive Films
1 h 30 m

2012
Olive Films
1 h 30 m

The Hunter

Name: The Hunter
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 2012-01-04
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Rating: 76
Cast: Rafi Pitts, Javad Nazari, Mitra Hajjar, Malek Jahan Khazai, Mahmoud Babai

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings

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Directed By: Rafi Pitts

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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82% Positive
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San Francisco Chronicle

Mar 29, 2012

The plot is spare, but unsettling imagery elevates The Hunter to the level of pure cinema.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Feb 29, 2012

This is a parable about modern Iran, and like many recent Iranian films it leaves its meaning to the viewer. One of the wise decisions by Rafi Pitts, its writer, director and star, is to include no dialogue that ever actually states the politics of its hero.

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The A.V. Club

Jan 4, 2012

Though The Hunter maintains the same even tone after it turns into a chase thriller, the look begins to resemble the work of William Friedkin and Walter Hill in its clean, elemental approach to action.

By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Jan 3, 2012

Filmed during the months leading up to the 2009 presidential election in Iran, The Hunter still seethes with fury - and anticipates the blood that would spill after the vote.

By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Jan 3, 2012

In The Hunter, writer-director Rafi Pitts manages an atmosphere of choked, ambiguous dread, somehow naturalistic and hallucinatory at once, that recalls nothing less than Godard's Alphaville.

By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

New York Post

Jan 5, 2012

Cinematographer Mohammad Davudi's nighttime shots of jammed Tehran highways help convey the society's dehumanization. Scenes of a vast forest outside the city, where Ali releases tension by hunting, are powerful in their own, sparse way.

By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

The New Yorker

Jan 3, 2012

The whole film, in fact, which Pitts wrote and directed, lurks on the borders of the unspecified. That is the source of its cool, but also of its sullen capacity to annoy.

By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Aftab Negaran Productions, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, The Match Factory, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH, World Cinema Fund, ZDF/Arte

Release Date Jan 4, 2012

Duration 1 h 30 m

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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Mar del Plata Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Tokyo FILMeX

• 1 Nomination

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Rafi Pitts

Ali Alavi

Javad Nazari

Policeman

Mitra Hajjar

Sara Alavi - Ali's Wife

Malek Jahan Khazai

Ali's Mother

Mahmoud Babai

Policeman

Ali Nicksaulat

Police Officer - Commander

Naser Madahi

Basiri - Old Night guard

Ali Mazinani

Reza - Young night guard

Manoochehr Rahimi

Inspector

Abbas Hassanzadeh

Policeman

Hossein Nickbakht

Hotel Receptionist

Said Hajmohammadi

Police Officer

Mansour Dowlatmand

Police Officer

Amir Ayoubi

Police Officer

Arash Faraghinejad

Policeman

Ebrahim Safarpour

Police Officer

Saba Yaghoobi

Saba Alavi - Ali's Daughter

Fatemeh Alijani

Orphonage Receptionist

Shoja'edin Ghanaei

Doctor

Hassan Ghalenoi

Policeman - Soldier

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