A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.
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Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee
Reyhan
Known for
A Hero
The White Balloon
Parviz Parastouei
Nasser
Known for
The Lizard
Nikos Papadopoulos
Zakario
Also in
Life Sentence
The Guards of Achaia
Svieta Mikalishina
Svieta
No other roles listed
Vantzos Konstantinos
Esmail Soltanian
Oujan / Karim
Also in
The Cyclist
Che
Rana Karmanshahi
Leila
No other roles listed
Zahra Jalilzadeh
Sara
No other roles listed
Mehtab Talebi
Zoleykhah
No other roles listed
Kambuzia Partovi Director · Mohammad Reza Sokout Cinematographer Jacques Witta Editor
First release November 3, 2005 · Produced in France, Iran, Türkiye · Languages Persian, Russian, Turkish
Production
France · Iran · Türkiye
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Languages
Original title
کافه ترانزیت
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian · Russian · Turkish
Release dates
Iran · November 3, 2005
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
October 18, 2006 · Theatrical
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