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Winner of the Silver Bear at Berlin in 1974, Still Life and its “translucent realism,” in the words of scholar Hamid Dabashi, confirmed Sohrab Shahid Saless as a “leading visionary of his generation.” Saless’ measured pacing and long takes transform the story of an elderly attendant of an isolated railroad crossing who is forced to retire into a powerful meditation on the larger forces—modernity, tradition culture—that shape the everyday.
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless. Screenwriter: Sohrab Shahid Saless. Cinematographer: Houshang Baharlou. Cast: Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian. 35mm, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 93 min.
