The Salesman (2016 film) The film premiered in competition in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards—Best Screenplay for Farhadi and Best Actor for Hosseini. "The Salesman" went on to receive more positive reviews, and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. However, Farhadi did not attend the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in protest of the U.S. Executive Order 13769. Emad and Rana are a married couple who both work in the theatre, currently starring in a production of "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, with Emad portraying Willy Loman and Rana playing Linda. Emad is also a
Willy Roper he suffers a mental breakdown and refuses any contact with Pauline, which devastates her. Not content with putting Arthur in prison, Willy spends the beginning of 1996 trying to woo Pauline in his absence. Her son Mark Fowler is furious at the amount of time Willy and Pauline spend together, but Pauline finds Willy to be a great comfort and refuses to stop seeing him socially. Following his mother's death in April 1996, Willy asks Pauline to go on holiday to Jersey. Mark correctly figures out that his real motive is to put the stolen money in an off-shore account