A young woman lives with her mother at the end of a dead end alley. One day the girl sees from her window a man who is standing in the rain with his umbrella staring at her window. As this scenario repeats, she gets used to seeing him there. She starts talking to him and becomes interested in him. One day, the woman's brother who is often out traveling returns and moments later the man enters and declares that he is an agent of law who is there to detain the brother.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_haRzV6iLs&noredirect=1
GHARIBEH VA MEH [STRANGER AND THE FOG] (Bahram Beizai, 1974, 140 min.)
In a remote village by Caspian sea the villagers see a boat coming to the shore. They help to get an injured man out of the boat. Ayat, the injured man, does not know what has gone to him. Raana, a woman whose husband was drowned without the sea returning his body, is curiously following Ayat's case. This causes the enmity of the family of Raana's missing husband. The village asks Ayat to marry one of their girls. When Ayat chooses Raana, a rift breaks into the village. During the wedding ceremony, a wolf attacks the village and two unidentified man close the path to Ayat and ask him to go with them. Ayat refuses. Ayat gets into fight with them and after killing one he realizes he was Raana's missing husband.
One day a man in a black attire comes to the village emerging from the foggy sea on a boat and after buying some grocery returns to the boat and disappears in the fog. Ayat seems scared. The day after a few strangers on five boats come to the village and get into fight with Ayat. The villagers this time come to his help and overtake five men. Injured Ayat sits on the boat and goes to see what is happening on the other side of the sea. Raana wears black clothes again.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEChC16SwE&noredirect=1
MARG-E YAZDGERD [DEATH OF YAZDGERD] ( Bahram Beizai, 1982, 110 min.)
Moubad, the leader of the Third Yazdgerd's army (the Persian King who lost his throne to the army of Arab Moslems) comes to a mill near Marv in order to issue justice about a miller, his wife, and his daughter accused for killing the king. The narratives of the accused family contradict. One says he has killed the king for raping his wife. The other says the dead body in the middle of the mill in King's clothes is actually the mill himself who was killed by the King in order for everyone to think King is dead. Outside of the mill, The army is running away from Arab Moslems. Mill's wife says that the justice is not finished yet as the real judges arrive with black flags, the Moslems.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tuwZdIfM58&noredirect=1 (subtitled)
CHERIKE-E TARA [BALLAD OF TARA] (Bahram Beizai, 1979, 110 min.)
A widow named Tara returns to her shed from the country with her two young children. On the way she is informed that her grandfather has died. She sees a strange man in historical attire on the wooded road and passes his quickly. Tara finds a sword among her grandfather's items left for her. She does not know what to do with it. She tries to use the sword instead of sickle to reap the harvest but the sword is not handy for such uses. Tara throws the sword into the river. Tara meets the knight again. He is part of a destroyed army. In fact, the sword left for Tara is the only remaining object from that history. Tara finds the sword by the shore and gives it to the historical man but he, who has fallen in love with Tara cannot come back to his own world. Meanwhile, Tara's sister in law, Esna, proposes Tara for her brother Ashoob. Tara rejects the offer. Tara asks the historical man to go away from the road and stop appearing on her way. Ashoob steals Tara's children and Tara accuses Ashoob for the murder of her brother in order to get to her. Ashoob leaves the village. Tara goes after the historical man and accuses him that all his story is bunch of lies that there is no army and no past to begin with. At this time a huge army reaches to the shore from the sea to testify and the historical man escapes to the jungle out of shame. Tara promises the man that she will leave her children with Ghalich and will go with him. The historical man hits the water with his wounded horse and Tara attacks the waves with her sword in order to take back the knight but waves push Tara back.
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