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Gav khuni (2003) Directed by: Behrooz Afkhami Date of birth: 1956, Tehran, Iran Writing credits: Behrooz Afkhami & Jafar Modaress Sadeghi (novel) Music: Kayvan Honarmand Country: Iran Language: Farsi Color: Color Runtime: 90 minutes Released: 2003 Genre: Drama |
It's all in the narrator's mind, and words, in "The River's End," an intensely artistic art film by veteran Behrooz Afkhami. The visuals silently illustrate the first-person voice-over of a young man haunted by the memory of his dead father. As the voice drones on reading, only the most insomniac viewers will stay the course until the poetic finale.... (www.variety.com)
Synopsis:
A young man leaves his native city of Isfahan and takes refuge in the capital city of Tehran in the hope of forgetting sad childhood and youthful memories as well as his parent's death. As the narrator of the film he describes a recurrent dream which started a few months after the death of his father. The dream, in which his dead father tries to drag his son into Gavkhuni swamp, and the remembrance of his father's strange attachment to Zayandeh-Rood River, disturb the narrator.
Cast:
Cast: Bahram Radan, Ezzatollah Entezami, Bahareh Rahnama, Atila Pesiani, Sorush Sehhat, Arash Majidi
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