• DirectorMajid Barzegar
  • Screenplay: Majid Barzegar & Arman Khansarian
  • Director of Photography: Masoud Amini Tirani
  • Editing: Hamid Reza Barzegar
  • Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, “Overture Egmont”(Selective)
  • Sound DesignerIraj Shahzadi
  • Sound Recordist: Iraj Shahzadi
  • Set & Costume Designer: Leila Naghdi Pari
  • Make-Up Artist: Elham Salehi
  • Production Manager: Ali Derakhshandeh
  • Executive Producer: Mehdi Barzegar
  • Co-Producer: Amir Endalah
  • Producer: Majid Barzegar
  • Production Company: RainyPictures . The Other End
  • CAST
  • Nazanin Ahmadi . Alireza Sanifar . Mazdak Mirabedini . Arshia Nikbin . Souren Mnatsakanian . Nahid Hadadi
  • Shooting format: Arri Alexa LF. 4k.
  • Screening format: DCP
  • Sound: 5.1 Surround
  • Ratio : Anamorphic 2.39:1
  • Original version: Persian
  • Subtitled in: English
  • Running time: 86 min
  • Year: 2021
  • Fiction – Color – 86 min – 2020 – Iran . Canada

Thirty-five-year-old Sara is a well-respected nurse working in a Tehran hospital. She does her best to relieve patients from their pain and suffering, even if that involves euthanizing people with incurable diseases. One day Sara is asked to look after a brain-dead patient near the Caspian Sea, where it is said the pink whale of local lore has returned after hundreds of years. It’s supposed return encourages Sara to keep her patient alive. Will she be able to?

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Majid Barzegar

A very long life if doesn’t cause disability, it will succumb and downfall us, a situation that may not be worse than death but depriving, steals our creativity and ability of participation in work, society and the world. It changes how people confront with us; they no longer remember us as a lively and active person, and the image of the last days of our life would be the image of an incapable, unproductive and even a wretched person.

Suicide, often described as cowardly or selfish action. But, in my opinion, those who choose to finish a life that has been completed in the old age with a dignified ending and avoid the painful, futile, humiliating period of encumbrance of others (close people and the medical system), and deliver freedom to their loved ones, they worth respect and admiration for their courage and self-sacrifice…

The above sentences can be in praised of euthanasia and the main purpose of the “Thunderbolt without Rain” screenplay. It can be said that, in recent years, medical ethics have been highly lead to whether keeping a patient without any symptoms of life, is prolonging his life or prolonging his death. Many examples of those who have been desirous of death in these years raise doubt about the parts of religious ethics and the customary ethics of societies.

Still, the above sentences could be the purpose of the “Thunderbolt without Rain” screenplay. But also there are a lot of things in this world that cannot be explained…

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