Downpour
With brash stylistic exuberance, this first feature from Bahram Beyzaie 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.
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Cast
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Mr. Hekmati
- Parvaneh Massoumi
- Atefeh
- Manuchehr Farid
- Rahim
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Nazem, the headmaster
- Parvin Soleimani
- Headmaster’s wife
- Mehri Vedadian
- Madame tailor
- Hossein Kasbian
- Barber
- Abbas Dastranj
- Mosayeb
- Jamshid Layegh
- Friendly teacher
- Esmat Safavi
- Atefeh’s mother
- Roghiyeh Chehreh-Azad
- Landlord
- Farkhondeh Bavar
- Headmaster’s daughter
Credits
- Director
- Bahram Beyzaie
- Screenplay
- Bahram Beyzaie
- Producer
- Barbod Taheri
- Cinematography
- Barbod Taheri
- Cinematography
- Maziar Partow
- Editing
- Mehdi Rajaeeyan
- Music by
- Sheyda Garachedaghi
- Sound
- Hossein Badihi
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