The Husband

Name: The Husband
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-02-01

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Storyline

Setareh is a widow whose husband has died in an accident after marrying his second wife. Now if she wants to give birth to her own child, she has to seek a husband desperately. In her path of life, she confronts different women victims in the society – a victim of acid attack, a victim of domestic violence, a victim of oldness and loneliness, a victim of limitations for women musicians and bitter memories of the victims of prejudice against women footballers…

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Details

DirectorEbrahim Irajzade

ReleasedFeb 1, 2025

StatusReleased

Original languagePersian

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

5 fresh · 1 rotten

Geoff Pevere

RTGlobe and MailMar 14, 2014

This is the kind of thoughtful, confident and seamlessly integrated filmmaking that comes from an uncommon fusion of artist and subject ...

Peter Howell

RTToronto StarMar 13, 2014

McDonald isn't seeking to make explosive drama about a human time bomb, preferring to show the many mood swings of real life.

Nathalie Atkinson

RTNational PostMar 20, 2014

Dark and sometimes tender, The Husband is the grim, realistic flip side of a what if - what if Notes on a Scandal focused solely on the drudgery of the husband's life in the wake of the betrayal?

Katherine Monk

RTCanada.comMar 13, 2014

McCabe-Lokos wrote the script for this stripped-down piece of psychological suspense that gets to the bony heart of love. And to his credit, he doesn't mind looking unsympathetic and cruel, even completely irresponsible.