Holy Spider - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Holy Spider"
عنکبوت مقدس (2022)
Timing:
1:58 (118 min)
7.27/10
352
352
6.976/10
5576
5576
7.3/10
32000
32000
Film crew
Director
Producer
Sol Bondy
Producer
Jacob Jarek
Producer
Executive Producer
Ditte Milsted
Executive Producer
Writer
Editor
Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Editor
Production Design
Lina Nordqvist
Production Design
Stunt Coordinator
René Lay
Stunt Coordinator
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gregor Bonse
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Co-Producer
Fred Burle
Co-Producer
Eva Åkergren
Co-Producer
Associate Producer
Director of Photography
Nadim Carlsen
Director of Photography
First Assistant Director
Tarik Afifi
First Assistant Director
Costume Designer
Hanadi Khurma
Costume Designer
Set Designer
Lina Nordqvist
Set Designer
Foley Artist
Julien Naudin
Foley Artist
Foley Mixer
Patrick Ghislain
Foley Mixer
Music
Martin Dirkov
Music
Casting Director
Line Producer
Mathias Schwerbrock
Line Producer
Urte Amelie Fink
Line Producer
Birsin Colakoglu
Line Producer
Daniela Ramin
Line Producer
ADR Editor
Payam Hosseinian
ADR Editor
Assistant Production Manager
Tareq Shuqom
Assistant Production Manager
Post Producer
Christina Jæger
Post Producer
Sound Editor
Rasmus Winther Jensen
Sound Editor
Producer's Assistant
Anna Warfvinge
Producer's Assistant
Assistant Camera
Axel Stock
Assistant Camera
What's left behind the scenes
- The plot is based on real events related to the Iranian serial killer named Saeed Hanaei, who killed 16 prostitutes in Iran between 2000 and 2001. Hanaei was a day laborer and a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War, and he began committing crimes when – according to some sources – someone mistakenly took his wife for a prostitute.
- Initially, Zara Amir Ebrahimi was simply responsible for casting in the film crew, but then she was cast as the main character. This happened when the actress originally cast in the lead role refused to film without a hijab at the last moment and left the project. Ebrahimi auditioned about 50 more actresses, but ultimately the role went to her. Director and screenwriter Ali Abbasi wanted to cast an actress of a different type – he envisioned her as physically strong, young and inexperienced, and consumed by a passionate desire to prove herself – and Ebrahimi seemed too meek and mature to him. But at some point, Ebrahimi reminded him that in a critical situation, desperate people are capable of a lot, and Abbasi changed his mind.
- Work on the project began in 2016. Initially, filmmakers wanted to shoot in Iran, but they abandoned this idea in 2019. In early 2020, it was decided to organize filming in Jordan, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the start of filming had to be postponed several times. By the end of 2020, it was decided to move filming to Turkey, where the restrictions imposed due to Covid were not as strict, but local authorities began to stall. According to Ali Abbasi, this happened due to the intervention of the Iranian government. Work on the film was again moved to Jordan, where filming began in May 2021 and lasted a total of 35 days.
- A prosthetic penis was used in a scene depicting oral sex with the actress Alice Rahimi. According to the director and screenwriter Ali Abbasi, it proved impossible to find one in Jordan, so it had to be ordered from abroad. The first attempt to smuggle the rubber penis across the border failed. A German producer of the film officially declared at the border that he was carrying an artificial penis for filming, and the item was immediately confiscated. Eventually, Rahimi’s friend brought a dildo from France, hiding it in his pants and saying nothing to customs officials.
- Several days after Zara Amir Ebrahimi received the Golden Palm at the Cannes International Film Festival for Best Actress, the Iranian authorities brought charges of “sacrilege” against her, a native of Iran, and against the film’s director and screenwriter Ali Abbasi (whose background was mixed, Danish-Iranian). Following the awards ceremony in Cannes, Ebrahimi received approximately 200 threats, according to her own account. Threats were also directed at the director-screenwriter and other members of the film crew.
- Director and screenwriter Ali Abbasi changed the surname of Saeed Khanai (played by Mehdi Bejestani) and invented certain facts concerning the journalist (played by Zara Amir Ebrahimi) in order to avoid drawing undue attention to the real-life inspirations for these characters and to the overall theme of the film (misogyny). The filmmakers depicted the journalist, working undercover, posing as a prostitute to lure the criminal into a trap. This did not actually happen. According to Abbasi, they wanted to make a film not about a serial killer, but about the society in which such serial killers exist.
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