Release Year: 1999
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Behzad Dorani, Farzad Sohrabi, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi
Studios: mk2 Films, Kiarostami Foundation
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Special Features:
A Week with Kiarostami (1999)
A documentary by Yuji Mohara on the making of the film.
Interview from 2002 with director Abbas Kiarostami
New video essay presenting Kiarostami’s poetry
Narrated by Massoumeh Lahiji, a longtime translator and creative collaborator of the director.
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar
Technical Specifications:
- 4K restoration
- Monaural
- In Persian with English subtitles
- 1.85:1 aspect ratio
