Cinema Tehran presents: Downpour
Drama, Comedy, Romance | 1972 | 128MIN
Director
Bahram Beyzaie
Cast
Parviz Fanizadeh
Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
Jamshid Layegh
Cinema Tehran presents Bahram Beyzayi’s first feature which helped usher in the Iranian New Wave. When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. Shot in luminous monochrome and edited with quicksilver invention, Downpour, which has been painstakingly restored from the only known surviving print, captures with puckish humor and great tenderness the cultural conflicts coursing through Iran at a pivotal historical moment
Feature presentation is preceded by Chenar by Mahyar Mandegar
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