An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
The Hidden Half has generally received positive reviews.
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The Hidden Half was released in 2001 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving The Hidden Half (2001) an average rating of 64%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 90%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 58%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Hidden Half a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 64%, The Hidden Half is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2001, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2001 with similar scores include films like Wasabi, Rat Race and Bandits.
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