Cinema
بوالهوس
Ebrahim Moradi · 1934
Synopsis
Khosrow, the son of a khan, falls in love at the Friday market with Nozhat, a young villager who loves a boy from the village, Ahmad, and by dint of insistence obtains her hand in marriage. Injured in an accident, he is taken to Tehran to be treated at his uncle's, where he gradually grows attached to his cousin. The news reaches the village, where the young wife finds herself alone.
Context
The film was shot from September 1933, over about three months, in a village in Langarud, in eastern Gilan, on land belonging to the family of one of the partners, and in Tehran, for the company Iran Film that the author had just founded with his three leading performers. Its first sequences show the customs of the villages of eastern Gilan. It was released at the Mayak cinema in Tehran in May 1934, six months after the Tehran release of دختر لر, and, despite state support, did not find its audience. No copy is known; photographs from the shoot survive.
Who it is for
A silent film, now lost, known only through accounts and photographs. One must know that it combines a portrait of peasant customs in Gilan with a melodrama.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as more solidly constructed than the other films of its period, Haji Aqa acteur de cinéma and La Fille lore; the critic Hosseinqoli Mostaan praised its screenplay.