Summaries

Anik a young girl is in desperate need to heart implement. She with the help of her doctor goes to a hospital where a young guy Amir is in a coma. On his wedding night he had an accident and is half dead in a coma. The doctor wants to use this young man's heart for Anik but his father is refusing. Meanwhile another customer for the heart is coming to the hospital and proposes a lot of money to the father. Finally the doctor manages to convince them to use the heart for Anik.—Ibrahim

'To Be or Not to Be' is the story of Anik Avanessian, a young woman suffering from a cardiac insufficiency that has caused her health to deteriorate to the point where she can no longer walk or speak without difficulty. With time running out, Anik is desperate for a heart transplant, but with her name just one on a list of 200, the chances of finding a suitable heart become increasingly unlikely. Anik's future rests in her ability, with her doctor, to convince the family of a brain-dead man to release their loved one's heart, so that it might live on in her. When it transpires that the man is the son of a disreputable criminal family, things go from bad to worse. A suspenseful tale of a woman doing her best to overcome the unimaginable, this film delivers an emotional punch.—IMVBox.com

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Keywords
  • title based on shakespeare
  • title from hamlet's soliloquy by shakespeare
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Sep 30, 1999
Countries of origin Iran
Language Persian Armenian
Filming locations Tehran, Iran

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Runtime 1h 34m
Color Color
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