---
title: 'Holy Spider (2022)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ali Abbasi'
released: '2022-05-22'
runtime_minutes: 117
genres:
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'France'
  - 'Denmark'
  - 'Sweden'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/holy-spider-2022'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18550140/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Holy Spider (2022)

2022 · 117 min · Crime · Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden


## Synopsis

Holy Spider is a 2022 Persian-language crime thriller film co-produced, co-written and directed by Ali Abbasi, starring Mehdi Bajestani and Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who targeted street prostitutes and killed at least 16 women from 2000 to 2001 in Mashhad, Iran, the film depicts a fictional female journalist investigating a serial killer.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ali Abbasi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ali-abbasi)
- **Screenplay:** [Ali Abbasi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ali-abbasi), [Afshin Kamran Bahrami](https://cinepixo.com/people/afshin-kamran-bahrami)
- **Producer:** [Jacob Jarek](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacob-jarek), [Sol Bondy](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-bondy)
- **Director of Photography:** [Nadim Carlsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/nadim-carlsen)

## Cast

- [Forouzan Jamshidnejad](https://cinepixo.com/people/forouzan-jamshidnejad) as Fatima
- [Nima Akbarpour](https://cinepixo.com/people/nima-akbarpour) as Judge
- [Mehdi Bajestani](https://cinepixo.com/people/mehdi-bajestani) as Saeed Hanaei
- [Zar Amir-Ebrahimi](https://cinepixo.com/people/zar-amir-ebrahimi) as Rahimi
- [Arash Ashtiani](https://cinepixo.com/people/arash-ashtiani) as Sharifi
- [Sara Fazilat](https://cinepixo.com/people/sara-fazilat) as Zinab

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