![]() ![]() ![]() There are signs early on that all is not entirely well. Shideh refuses, taping X's on the windows, hustling Dorsa into the basement during air raids, pulling out her illegal VCR to do Jane Fonda workouts (after closing the curtains). Shideh and Dorsa remain, at first because Shideh is stubborn, and feeling bullied by her absent husband's demands (over static-crackling phone calls from one of the war fronts where he is stationed) that she go stay with his parents. As the attacks increase in frequency, the city empties of people. Taking place in 1988 Tehran, during the "war of the cities" phase of the nearly decade long Iran-Iraq war, "Under the Shadow" is the story of Shideh ( Narges Rashidi) and Dorsa ( Avin Manshadi), a mother and daughter holed up in their apartment, withstanding the missile bombardment. ![]()
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