"...the story has the beauty of an ancient fable - you can feel Bayzaie's background in Persian literature, theater and poetry." — Martin Scorsese
Directed by Bahram Beyzaie
Bahram Beyzaie’s debut feature about a well-meaning schoolteacher in Tehran who's embattled by changes of fortune, was enormously successful in its time, but had fallen out of view in post-revolutionary Iran. This screening presents the film as restored in 2011 by the World Cinema Foundation at Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna/L’immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with the involvement of Bahram Beyzaie himself.
Screenwriter: Bahram Beyzaie. Cast: Parviz Fannizadeh, Parvaneh Masumi, Manuchehr Farid.
DigiBeta, b/w, in Persian with English subtitles, 120 min.