The Salesman (2016 film)

The Salesman
theatrical release poster in Iran
Directed by	Asghar Farhadi
Written by	Asghar Farhadi
Produced by	Alexandre Mallet-Guy Asghar Farhadi
Starring	Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti
Cinematography	Hossein Jafarian
Edited by	Hayedeh Safiyari
Music by	Sattar Oraki
Production companies	Memento Films Production Asghar Farhadi Production Arte France Cinéma
Distributed by	Filmiran (Iran) Memento Films Distribution (France)
Release dates	May 21, 2016 (2016-05-21) (Cannes) August 31, 2016 (2016-08-31) (Iran) November 2, 2016 (2016-11-02) (France)
Running time	125 minutes
Countries	Iran[1] France
Language	Persian
Box office	16.1 billion toman (Iran)[2]

The Salesman (Persian: فروشنده, romanized: Forušande, released in France as Le Client) is a 2016 Iranian-French drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. It is about a married couple who perform Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman on stage. When the wife is assaulted, her husband attempts to determine the identity of the attacker, while she struggles to cope with post-trauma stress. Farhadi chose Miller's play as his story within a story based on shared themes. A co-production between Iran and France, the film was shot in Tehran, beginning in 2015.

The film premiered in competition in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards—Best Screenplay for Farhadi and Best Actor for Hosseini. The Salesman was very well-received by film critics, who mainly praised Farhadi's direction and writing, and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, being his second win after A Separation (2011). However, Farhadi did not attend the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in protest of the U.S. Executive Order 13769.