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Leila [digital videodisc] / produced by Dariush Mehrjui and Faramarz Farazmand ; screenplay by Dariush Mehrjui based on a story by Mahnaz Ansarian ; directed by Dariush Mehrjui.

[New York, N.Y. : First Run Features, 2000?]

Marriage -- Iran -- Drama.

Women -- Iran -- Social conditions -- Drama.

Marriage brokerage -- Iran -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Iranian.

Iran -- Social life and customs -- Drama.

1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Reza and Leila, an attractive and affluent young couple deeply in love and recently married, discover that Leila is unable to conceive. Although Reza steadfastly insists that it matters not in the least, his mother feels otherwise: she is determined that her son have children and continue the family line. Invoking traditions, she convinces her daughter-in-law that Reza must, out of necessity, take a second wife to produce an heir. A portrayal of the clash between tradition and modern marriage in Iran.

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