Iranian New Wave

Bahram Beizai's films:

RAGBAR [THE DOUNPUR] (1972, 120 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVtf451rYsw&noredirect=1 (subtitled)

Mr. Hekmati, the new teacher in a school in the south of capital, the poor neighborhood, ends up expelling one of his students, Mosayyeb, in the first day of class. Atiyeh, Mosayyeb's sister, goes to the teacher to protest this issue. Hekmati shows interest toward her. Mr. Rahim, the butcher of the neighborhood, also has shown interest to Atiyeh. Meanwhile, the superintendent of the school and his wife would life Hekmati to marry their daughter. But Hekmati shows no interest to their daughter. Hekmati decides to repair school's theatre on his own. Several times the butcher threatens him in hope of scaring him away to leave Atiyeh. But the relationship between Hekmati and Atiyeh deepens. The theatre is finally opens up and Hekmati receives his notice of transfer. Despite his will, he has to leave the school and the neighborhood.

KALAGH [THE RAVEN] (1977, 120 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34VNwCuqc4I&noredirect=1

In search for a subject matter for a TV program, Esalat (literary means originality) notices a newspaper ad about a missing young woman with a return address for contact. The picture of woman seems familiar to Esalat. He tries to remember where he has seen her. In the evening, while visiting a group of his coworkers, he brings up the story of missing woman with them as a joke. Asieh is a teacher of deaf students and she is writing a memoir about her mother in law at home these days, who came from an important family. Esalat checks out the address given in the newspaper ad and realizes that the address is related to 30 years ago. Asieh also shows interest to the story of missing girl. Esalat's coworkers succeed in dragging Esalat for preparing a report about air pollution through a use of fake phone call. Mother in law in remembering her memory take Asieh to remote time in the past, to visiting people and places that no longer exist. The mother had lost her fiance when she was young and resorted to a short marriage without love and adopted Esalat during the WWII when she found him in hospital. Moments later, upon hearing the fake news of finding the missing girl, the mother physically starts deteriorating. Asieh who feels there is a mysterious link among the events which is surrounding her starts looking for clues. In mother's room, she finds a picture of missing girl and discovers that the missing girl belongs to the youth of her mother in law.