To Be or Not To Be (1999)
Directed by Kiyanush Ayyari
Genres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Family Drama | Run Time - 90 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NRShare on
Synopsis by Mark Deming
The issue of organ donation is given dramatic form in this personal story from Iran. A young woman is in dire need of a donor for a heart transplant, but despite repeatedly approaching surgeons and families of severe accident victims, she's had no luck. She discovers a young man, a member of a disreputable crime family, who was killed at his wedding party, and the woman and her family make a desperate appeal to the gangsters to let his heart live on in her. Boodan Yaa Naboodan/To Be Or Not To Be was directed by one of Iran's most acclaimed filmmakers, Kianoosh Ayyari.
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donation, heart, heart-transplant, Iran, organ-donor, organ-transplant, transplant, woman
