Feature film
Difficult Days
روزهای دشوار
Wali Latifi · 1974
Synopsis
A black-and-white feature fiction film, shot in 1974 by Wali Latifi, whose Persian title means Difficult Days. It belongs to the short series of Afghan fiction films of the seventies, often directed by filmmakers trained in the Soviet Union, which the country's film history counts among its first films.
Context
The state body Afghan Film, founded in 1968, at first produced only documentaries and newsreels, shown before the Indian films that then filled the cinemas. The first Afghan fiction films appear around 1970, all without colour; this one is cited alongside Les statues rient, from 1976, among the films of this period on which Toryali Shafaq, Mashal Honaryar or Parvin Sanatgar worked.
Who it is for
A film in Persian, shot in Kabul in 1974. It is to be sought in the archives of Afghan cinema rather than in cinemas.
Prizes and reception
No prize found. Histories of Afghan cinema cite it among the fiction films of the decade.