Country: Iran
Year: 2003
Duration: 86'
Kamran and Mansour come from Tehran. Kamran is a melancholy
university student who refuses to go to class, Mansour is a dropout who
likes to commit small acts of vandalism. When Mansour is kicked out of
his home, the two start to wander around the city and end up in a
derelict boardinghouse. Kamran becomes indifferent to everything around
him and even stops eating, whereas Mansour meets the student Ayda and is
taken with her free and open personality. But Kamran continues his
self-destructive decline and even the relationship between Mansour and
Ayda ends up badly after the girl is forced to return home.
"My film is about young people who have no interests and don't know what
they can believe in. There is a terribly empty space, in Iranian cinema,
that belongs to these people. This lack of interest in them could also
be the reason for our lack of knowledge and comprehension" (P.
Shahbazi).
Biography
film director
Parviz Shahbazi
Parviz Shahbazi (Khorramabad, Iran, 1962) graduated with a degree in directing from IRIB College in 1987. Between the mid-1980's and the early 1990's, he directed short fiction films (including The Rope, 1990, inspired by the homonymous film by Hitchcock) and short documentaries (Kafa, 1986; Black Spring, 1991), and was an assistant to Jafar Panahi for the film Badkonak-e sefid (The White Balloon, 1995). In 1996 he debuted with the full-length fiction film Mosafere jonub (Traveler from the South), which was presented at various festivals throughout the world, winning, among others, first prize at the Tokyo Film Festival and the Jury Prize at the XV Torino Film Festival (1997). In 2000 he wrote and directed his second full-length film, Najva (Whispers).
FILMOGRAFIA
Pala (cm, 1985), Kafa (cm, doc, 1986), Project 2
(cm, 1987), The Rope (cm, 1990), Black Spring (cm,
doc, 1991), Shadows (cm, 1993), Mosafere jonub
(Traveler from the South, 1996), Najva
(Whispers, 2000), Nafas-e ameegh (Deep Breath,
2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, montaggio/Director, story, screenplay, film editor: Parviz Shahbazi
Fotografia/Director of photography: Ali Loghmani
Scenografia/Set designer: Esmaeel Mehan Doust
Musica/Music : Mehrdad Palyzban
Suono/Sound : Bahman Ardalan
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and characters: Mansour Shahbazi (Mansour), Maryam Palyzban (Ayda), Saeed Amini (Kamran)
Produttore/Producer: Amir Samavati
Produzione/Production: Behnegar
Fotografia/Director of photography: Ali Loghmani
Scenografia/Set designer: Esmaeel Mehan Doust
Musica/Music : Mehrdad Palyzban
Suono/Sound : Bahman Ardalan
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and characters: Mansour Shahbazi (Mansour), Maryam Palyzban (Ayda), Saeed Amini (Kamran)
Produttore/Producer: Amir Samavati
Produzione/Production: Behnegar
TFF
prizes
