Yek Etefagh sadeh (1973)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Writer:

Sohrab Shahid Saless (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Hibibollah Safarian
Mohammed Zamani

Also Known As:

A Simple Event (International: English title)

Runtime:

USA:80 min

Country:

Iran

Language:

Persian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Central Film Office of the Iranian Ministry of Culture

It is the story of routine life of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother in Northern coasts of Iran.

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Yek Eteffagh e Sadé looks like an Italian new-realistic film, something of the kind of Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica. It is even a raw realistic film rather than realistic. The camera is still and the takes are very long. There is no close-ups and the most of the film is made by long shots and very long shots. The action is very long (e.g. the real duration of schoolboy's taking his food)and repeated many times (the boy takes in his bags fishes from his father's bag every day, every night he brings water to his mother). Shahid-Sales used to show the boring routine life of ordinary people with these devices. In 1974, year after Yek Eteffagh e Sadé he won Berlin's Silver Beer for his Still Life, again a story of routine...