Koker () is a small mud-brick village in

Rudbar County Rudbar County () is in Gilan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Rudbar. History In 2024, 12 villages and the city of Lowshan were separated from the Central District in the formation of Lowshan District, including the new Jamal ...

Gilan province Gilan Province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country and southwest of the Caspian Sea. Its capital is the city of Rasht. The province lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran's Regions of Iran, Region 3, west of ...

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. In the early 1990s the well-known Koker trilogy of films, directed by

Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami ( ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including s ...

, were filmed in the village, which was devastated by the 1990 earthquake.

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