TEHRAN 7:00 A.M.
( TEHRAN SAATE HAFTE SOBH )

HILAJ FILM PRODUCTIONS, Iran
BRAVE NEW WORK FILM PRODUCTIONS, Germany
NHK ENTERPRISES 21, Inc., Japan
Present

Year of Production:2003
Subtitles: English
Director: Amir Shahab Razavian
Fiction, Iran_Japan_Germany /35mm / Color / 85min / 1:1.66 / Optic
Screenwriters: Majid Eslami, Farzad Pourkhoshbakht
Based on a story by: Amir Shahab Razavian
Director of Photography: Morteza Poursamadi
Editor: Parviz Shahbazi
Sound: Karim Kashani
Sound Editor and Mix: Parviz Abnar
Executive Producers: Saeed Razavian, Ueda Makoto, Frank Geigar

Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Hassan Moazeni, Reza Khamseh, Parviz Larijani, Mehran Rajabi, Mohammad Hajhosseini, Nazanin Farahani, Javad Khademhoseini, Rabea Madani.

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Synopsis: Seven a.m. at a junction a group of pedestrians are waiting for the green light. A young policeman who is in charge of changing the traffic lights prolongs the time of the walkers' red light in order to see his beloved girl, more. The girl is an actress. After a while he expresses his love to the girl, but there is a wide distance between them.
In an Addiction Test Laboratory two pseudo-dictator old men take the urine samples of the customers (men). They are going to retire soon and they have always been afraid of the inspectors. Today without their knowledge an inspector has come to the lab.
A motorist who gives ride to passengers is used to relating the words of the previous passengers to the next ones in an incomplete and incorrect manner. Among his passengers there is an old man who makes trouble for themotorist and.
An Afghan welder is faced with a girl who escapes a man. The girl and theAfghan tell lies about their lives. The young man is gradually interested in the girl but the girl escapes him too.
The young police commits suicide, but he is rescued. The actress goes to the hospital and talks to him. But still there is a great gap between them.The girl goes out of the hospital and gets to the traffic red light at 7:00 a.m., the light is working automatically and all those people that we have
seen in the film are waiting at the junction. By turning of the light into green they all start walking.

First Episode: Mirage

The park clock shows 7:00 a.m. beside the clock there is a vacant bench.
An organ player whom we will see between the episodes enters, plays an old song and goes away.

A young drafted soldier as usual is standing at the junction at 7:00 a.m.
Everyday at this time a special excitement overcomes him since the girl he likes passes the junction. He lengthens the passerby's red light so he can watch her more. But today is a special day. His friend has interfered earlier so that the girl would give him a fifteen-minutes time for talking.
The girl is an actress and he knows it. The soldier is a dreamy, melancholic and lonely boy. He has not slept well at night thinking how he can talk to the girl of his dreams. The conversation doesn't advance as he expected. The conversation atmosphere is cold and uneasy and time is running. The boy is polite and shy and speaks in scattered sentences. When he sees time is to finish suddenly assumes the appearance of a heart broken, crazy lover. The girl listens calm and cold blooded. As if she is familiar with this situation and this kind of people, this makes the boy more angry and depressed. Finally it seems there is a great gap between them that will never be filled.

Second Episode: Oblivion

Two old men are in charge of taking urine samples from those asking for a non-addiction certificate in a government lab. One is very talkative and the other one is strict; they have a kind of empire in that lab. People enter six by six to do the test and these two lecture them on the fact that
no one can cheat them and they are very careful. They have just seven months left to their retirement and they want to finish their job honorably. They have spent a large part of this period with the fear of inspector, and their strictness is more due to this fear from an unknown being: "Inspector".
They humiliate their customers in different ways. They address them in second person and show off their power. They argue with a young boy whose case is dubious and the strict old man reminds him angrily that he can do whatever
he likes. He says:" Even I can mix these samples!" and in front of the astonished eyes of others mix the samples. Unfortunately one of the callers is the inspector. Everybody goes and the old men remain lonely in their empire.

Third Episode: Miracle

A young motorist earns his life by riding passengers. His passengers are different types of people. He talks and good-humoredly jokes with them. He is agreed with every one and that's why his words are contradictory. He gives the words of the previous passenger to the next one, and never starts
a discussion. He just listens patiently to people without saying much about his own life. He just believes that the source of all problems is shortage of money. At the same time he remembers to tell everybody that once a passenger has cheated him and has entered a building (Addiction Diagnosis Lab) and escaped from the other door never paying his fare. His last passenger is a reticent old man who finally encourages the motorist to show disagreement. He criticizes the motorist and asks him why the fare is so important for him. The motorist reacts in a strange way and mistreats the passenger. He forces him to get off and tells him bad words. The old man says:" You who are so attached to worldly wealth how will you die?" The motorist says:" Like you, how are you going to die?" The old man says:" Like this." He lies down and dies. The motorist remains dumbfounded by the old man's body.

Fourth Episode: Dream

A welding Afghan worker is working at the top of a half-finished building.
A young terrified girl seeks help and the boy desperately hides her. A young man comes after the girl and the Afghan boy doesn't say anything. The man says that this girl is dangerous and it is better to keep your distance. The
man leaves and the girl explaining their words say contradictory sentences.
Once she says she has killed her irresponsible husband who gave her to others. Once again she says she doesn't have a husband and her stepfather has raped her, those youngsters are once her husband's friends and the other time they are her stepfather's agents and finally laughing she says non of this is correct, she is a student of theatre and to go deep into the role they have planned this play and those young men are his class mates.
But at this time the police arrives and the girl escapes. The Afghan remains wondering what to believe.

Fifth Episode: Confidence

The actress girl of the first episode goes to the shooting scene at night.
The make-up artist very talkative while doing her face describes a lengthy incident; the girl listens impatiently. The incident is about a young girl who lives in their neighborhood and has killed her stepfather. At this
time a young man insist on meeting the young actress at the shooting scene. He is a friend of the drafted soldier in the first episode. He tells the girl that the soldier has committed suicide and it is vital for the girl to go to the hospital and meet him. The girl shuns the shooting and goes to the hospital.
There is no danger any more. The young man is conscious; weak and giddy he rejoices the girl's presence. The girl in order to explain her morning carelessness relates the story she has heard from the make-up artist as her own life story. The boy is fascinated with the story and thanks her because
of her confidence in him. The girl turns back home, while there is no sign of a guilty conscious or any change in her face.The girl gets to the junction at 7:00 a.m.; all the main characters of the film are standing at the red light without knowing each other. The passerby's red light turns into green very fast unlike the beginning of the film. The girl crosses the street, the traffic control panel is working automatically and no one is standing there by the red light. The actress girl has a strange feeling, which is unknown to her. She is a little
bit depressed. Gradually the tune of the organ player whom we have seen between the episodes draws her. She goes to the park that we have seen at the beginning of the film and where she has talked to the young police. She sits
on a bench. Over her head the park clock shows 7:08. The organ player also enters and sits on another bench and plays.