With a special storyteller intro by Ghazaleh Ghobadi. A presumed lost gothic murder mystery about an aristocratic family in 1920’s Iran.
After the death of the matriarch of a decadent, aristocratic family in 1920’s Iran, family members, a servant and a nurse concoct cunning plans around the inheritance of the family fortune. They begrudge each other everything. A suspenseful and gorgeous gothic murder mystery filled with greed, envy and violence.
A widely acclaimed, recently recovered and restored Iranian classic. A suspenseful and highly critical portrait of an Iranian society in which women are stripped of their power by force. This pre-revolutionary film was screened just once in Iran before it was banned. For forty years the film seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, until it was discovered in a thrift store in 2014. The film was restored by Cineteca di Bologna, aided by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, and had its premiere at Cannes in 2020.
Restored by Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, in collaboration with Mohammad Reza Aslani
