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| Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Script: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Cinematography: Ebrahim Ghazizadeh and Faraj Heidari Cast: Majid Majidi, Zohreh Sarmadi, Mohammad Kasebi  Mohsen Makhmalbaf Boycott Bread and Flower Kandahar Marriage of the Blessed Once Upon a Time, Cinema Testing Democracy from ('Tales from an Island') The Actor The Cyclist The Day I Became a Woman The Door (from 'Kish Tales') The Peddler |
Iran, 1986, 95 min, color  Valeh is an irregular troop communist. His wife seeks a normal life and opposes the dangerous activities of her husband. When Valeh takes his wife to the hospital for childbirth, he gets arrested and after being tortured and interrogated in the courthouse he is sentenced to execution and is sent to the public jail. In the public jail his friends ask him to die like a hero and make the effort for the continuance of the struggle but he loses his combat motives despite his friends' advice because when he dies he will no longer be, so he tries to stay alive or at least find a better motive for dying. |
MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF One of the most popular and influential Iranian filmmakers is born in 1957 in a poor neighborhood in Tehran. At the age of 15, he quit school to provide for his family. He became involved with a militant terrorist group battling against the Shah's regime. at the age of 17 he was sentenced to die after stabbing a policeman. Ultimately, his youth allowed him to escape the fate of a firing squad, and after serving only five years of his sentence he was freed in the wake of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution. After his release Makhmalbaf helped establish an artists' group known as the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Thought, and he became a prolific writer of plays, essays, short stories, and finally screenplays. His first filmed script was 1981's "The Explanation", filmed by Manuchehr Haghaniparast and he directed his first feature "Nassouh's Repentance" in 1983. Throughout the remainder of the decade, he wrote and directed roughly one film a year, each wildly different in style and content. With 1986's "The Peddler", Makhmalbaf first began attracting international film-festival attention. With 1990's "Time of Love" and its immediate follow-up, "The Nights of Zayandeh Roud", he also came under the scrutiny of the censors, which promptly banned both features. While making 1993's "The Actor", a satire of the media in contemporary Iran, his first wife burned to death in a domestic accident (he later married her sister Marzieh Meshkini). With 1996's "Gabbeh", he even found U.S. distribution for his work. Makhmalbaf was also the subject of several documentaries, among them Abbas Kiarostami's "Close-Up". 1983 Tobeh Nosuh 1984 Do Cheshman Beesu 1984 Este'aze 1986 Boycott 1987 Dastforough 1989 Bicycleran) 1989 Arousi-ye Khouban 1990 Nobat e asheghi 1991 Shabhaye Zayendeh-Rood 1992 Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema 1993 Honarpisheh 1995 Salaam Cinema 1996 Gabbeh 1996 Nun va Goldoon 1998 Sokhout 1999 Ghesse Haye Kish - segment "The Door" 2000 Tales of an Island - segment "Testing Democracy" 2001 Safar e Ghandehar     |
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