The Report (1977 film)

The Report (Persian: گزارش, Gozāresh) is a 1977 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Shohreh Aghdashloo.

[1] A civil servant at the Ministry of Finance, Mahmad Firuzkui, is accused of taking bribes, at the same time as his marriage is crumbling and his wife is threatening to leave him.

The first deals with corruption in the collection of property taxes in Iran's Ministry of Finance, where junior administrators demand bribes from the public, drink tea rather than doing productive work, and carry on an active nightlife in drinking establishments and gambling dens/casinos.

The second half of the film deals with the family life of Firuzkui, a corrupt young clerk in the Ministry of Finance.

Eventually, they have such an intense argument that she threatens to leave and packs her suitcase; he tells her to take their daughter, but when she does he changes his mind and grabs her.