| Cast |
Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Mojtaba Pirzadeh |
| Director |
Asghar Farhadi |
| Screenplay | Asghar Farhadi |
| Music | Sattar Oraki |
| Cinematography | Hossein Jafarian |
| Editing | Hayedeh Safiyari |
| SA distributor | Independent |
| Made in | 2016 |
| Produced by | Arte France Cinéma, Doha Film Institute, Farhadi Film Production, Memento Films Production |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Mild to moderate, fairly frequent |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Low impact, infrequent, brief |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
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| PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements and a brief bloody image |
| Runtime | 124 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
| Suggested age limit 14 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
Language |
Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Deborah Young  Trauma triggers cracks in young couple's relationship. | 15 |  |
| Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Ineenvlegting van talle verhaalelemente geniaal. | 15 | |
| Metacritic.com 36 critics | 17 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 152 critics | 16 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Salesman takes an ambitiously complex look at thought-provoking themes, and the well-acted results prove another consistently absorbing entry in writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s distinguished filmography. | 19 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 15 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Oscar-winning Iranian film has violence, some language. | 10 |  |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 168 users | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 5288 users | 15 | |
| Internet 19972 Netizens | 16 | |
Average .. 77% | 15 | |