The Story of the Film “Mohallal” and the Death Sentence for Nosrat Karimi After the 1979 Revolution, Nosrat Karimi was banned from working and teaching in the field of cinema and spent several months in prison, yet she remained in Homeland all these years. During the Iranian Cultural Revolution, she was sentenced to have her hand amputated for writing the script for “Mohallal” and was sentenced to death for making it. However, due to Nosrat Karimi’s popularity and lack of political activity, her sentence was reduced to a lifetime ban on working in Iranian cinema. Mohallal was made in 1977, based on a story of the same name by Sadegh Hedayat, and became a controversial film. In the film, a market husband loses his temper during a family argument and “divorces” his wife “triplely” but soon regrets it. According to Islamic jurisprudence, or the interpretation of it presented in the story, this man no longer has the right to “return” and can only remarry his wife on condition that another man, called a “mohallal,” performs this act. The man finds himself in a painful dilemma: on the one hand, he cannot ignore the laws of Sharia, and on the other, he is unwilling to marry his ex-wife to a foreign man. The screening of the film provoked a strong reaction from religious circles, which ultimately led to the film being banned.