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Sagkoshi (2001) - Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
Directed by: Bahram Bayzaii
Date of birth: 26 December 1938, Teheran, Iran
Writing credits: Bahram Beizai
Music: Saba Khozoie, Vartan Sahakian
Country: Iran / France
Language: Farsi
Color: Color
Runtime: 148 minutes
Released: 2001
Genre: Thriller

Synopsis:

An Iranian Lady Writer called Golrokh Kamali, that Left Her Husband Nasser Moaser Very Angrily Last Year Because She thought that he had a relationship with his secretary in his office, returns to Tehran after the end of war. She sees her husband is bankrupt and he is going to prison. Golrokh noticed that her husband's partner has taken all the capital of the company and has gone abroad illegal and the creditor's pressure: Golrokh knows her duty to save her husband after her improper suspicion toward him and she tries to release him by paying some of his debts, proving his innocence and getting the complainant's satisfaction.

In fact, Golrokh enters in to a world credulously which is very different with her thought, "The world of transaction". She negotiates with the complainants and the creditors one by one to get their satisfaction and she continues to the point that there is no returning way and she understands that she breaks out in a kind of war that she shouldn't lose it. she bears all of them: despising and insult and injury and aggression, and at last she releases her husband, and he thanks her by giving her divorcement.

Golrokh finds out that all these plays were her husband's theatrical actions that he wanted to own the capital of company by frightening his partner.

Now, by having the complainant's satisfaction, Nasser is the legal manager of the company and he wants to go abroad with his secretary for honey-moon. Golrokh bear it with dignity and gravity, but Nasser can't manage his plans, because his returning partner and the people who follow Golrokh all time are as clever as Nasser Moaser, and arrive now and Moaser can't rescue himself.(Read the summary in persian at www.Dogkilling.com)

Dog killing is Bahram Beyzaie's first film in a dozen years. To many outside the country Beyzaie is primarily known through Bashu, the Little Stranger. Bashu had to wait many years before it got permission for release. It was then (1985) rejected by film audits as an anti-war movie.

Not a single movie of the director has made it to the theaters with ease. Beyzaie's meticulous, capillary attention bleed outside his movies and into the bureaucratic process that sees films into projectors. Killing Rabids (Sagkoshi) was no exception. Director and Producer came to a last-minute agreement after months of sword pointing. (summary by Ramin Haeri: ramin@tehranavenue.com)

Produced by Behrouz Hashemian (Iran/France)
Screenplay (in Farsi) by Bahram Beyzaie
Production Design by Iraj Raminfar
Photography (Color) by Asghar Rafie Jam
Edited by Bahram Beyzaie
Music by Vartan Sahakian & Saba Khozoie

Credited cast overview:

Mozhdeh Shamsai .... Golrokh Kamali
Majid Mozaffari .... Husband
Reza Kianian .... Partner
Mitra Hajjar .... Secretary
Dariush Arjmand .... Businessman
Ahmad Najafi
Enayat Bakhshi
Esmail Shangale
Ferdous Kaviani
Jamshid Layegh
Hassan Pour Shirazi

Festivals (Prizes):
Fajr 01: International Competition (Best Actress: Shamsaie) & National Competition (Best Screenplay, Photography, S. Actor: Arjmand, Set Design, Audience Award), Goteborg 02

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