Director: Bahram Beyzai
Cast: Parviz Fanizadeh, Mohammadali Keshavarz, Jamshid Layegh, Parvaneh Massoumi, Esmat Safavi,
Plot: A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very old mother and raises her young brother. In an environment where commitments and social problems often stand in the way between people and their dreams.
World Cinema Project 3: Criterion Blu-ray review
With volume 3 of their World Cinema Project box sets, Criterion has released another treasure trove of largely unknown (in the West) features spanning five decades and six countries, from the Expressionist horror of Mexico’s Dos Monjes […]