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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.
Original Release
07/08/1972
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Parviz Fanizadeh | Hekmati |
Mohamad Ali Keshavarz | Nazem / Principal |
Jamshid Layegh | |
Parvaneh Massoumi | Atefeh |
Esmat Safavi | Atieh's mother |
Hossein Kasbian | Barber |
Manuchehr Farid | Rahim |
Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad | |
Reza Bani Ahmad | |
Farkhondeh Bavar |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Parviz Fanizadeh | Hekmati |
Mohamad Ali Keshavarz | Nazem / Principal |
Jamshid Layegh | |
Parvaneh Massoumi | Atefeh |
Esmat Safavi | Atieh's mother |
Hossein Kasbian | Barber |
Manuchehr Farid | Rahim |
Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad | |
Reza Bani Ahmad | |
Farkhondeh Bavar | |
Abbas Dastranj | Mosayeb |
Said Oveissi | |
Sirus Hasan Pour | (as Sirrus Hassanpur) |
Parvin Soleymani | Principal's wife |
Hassan Zandi |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Barbod Taheri | Producer |