Martin Scorsese remarked:[1] I'm very proud that the World Cinema Foundation has restored this wise and beautiful film, the first feature from its director Bahram Bayzaie.
The tone puts me in mind of what I love best in the Italian neorealist pictures, and the story has the beauty of an ancient fable – you can feel Bayzaie's background in Persian literature, theater and poetry.
Bayzaie never received the support he deserved from the government of his home country – he now lives in California – and it's painful to think that this extraordinary film, once so popular in Iran, was on the verge of disappearing forever.
The original negative has been either impounded or destroyed by the Iranian government, and all that remained was one 35mm print with English subtitles burned in.
... my audiences are those who strive to go one step further, not those who are the guardians of the old equations nor those who dread self-examination and self-reflexivity.This article related to an Iranian film is a stub.