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Still Life

Original title: Tabiate bijan
  • 19741974
  • 1h 33m
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7.8/10
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Still Life (1974)
Drama
For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Through the years, Mohamad has done little to stifle t... Read allFor more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Through the years, Mohamad has done little to stifle the loneliness and boredom inherent in the job. Meanwhile, back at his family home, life is... Read allFor more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Through the years, Mohamad has done little to stifle the loneliness and boredom inherent in the job. Meanwhile, back at his family home, life is similarly uneventful: Mohamad's wife passes the time sewing night and day, especially sin... Read all
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  • Director
    • Sohrab Shahid Saless
  • Writer
    • Sohrab Shahid Saless
  • Stars
    • Zadour Bonyadi
    • Mohammed Kani
    • Hedayatollah Navid
  • Director
    • Sohrab Shahid Saless
  • Writer
    • Sohrab Shahid Saless
  • Stars
    • Zadour Bonyadi
    • Mohammed Kani
    • Hedayatollah Navid
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    • 6User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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      • 6 wins & 2 nominations

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    • Mohamad Sardari
    Mohammed Kani
    Hedayatollah Navid
    Hibibollah Safarian
    Habib Safaryan
    Zahra Yazdani
    • The Old Man's Wife
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      • Sohrab Shahid Saless
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    Stark and absorbing examination of social alienation
    Stark and absorbing minimalist examination of alienation and the daily ritual of working life. It works on both a literal and symbolic level: its unfurnished aesthetic grounds its subject matter in a sparse, gruelling existence wherein the railway track brings both daily sustenance and contact from the wider region; but there is a point at which the narrative casually, unexpectedly folds back on itself, makes us aware of a continuity error, of a flashback after the fact, so that time itself becomes the subject of the camera's observant gaze (another moment sees a conversation repeated from earlier drowned out by the sound of a ticking clock). Quiet and demanding, but devastating by its end.

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    • Release date
      • December 7, 1978 (Hungary)
    • Country of origin
      • Iran
    • Official sites
      • IMVBox.com
      • sourehcinema
    • Language
      • Persian
    • Also known as
      • Stilleben
    • Filming locations
      • Mazandaran, Iran
    • Production companies
      • Kanoon-E Sinamagran-E Pishro
      • New Film Group and Telefilm
      • Telfilm
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      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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