Making a Movie in Secret, and Living With the Repercussions
Adrian Bogdan
Photo: Neon Every aspect of The Seed of the Sacred Fig , onscreen and off, evokes the rhythms of a political thriller. In the movie, Iman (Missagh Zareh), an investigating judge for Iran’s Revolutionary Court who is responsible for determining the guilt or innocence of people charged with crimes against the state, begins to suspect that his wife, Najmeh (Soheila Golestani), and his daughters, Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki), are keeping secrets from him. During the film’s
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