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Title The cow / directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Published Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 1969

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Description 1 online resource (114 min.) : sound, black & white
Summary Confiscated for nearly two years when it was first released in Iran, The Cow is one of the founding films of the Iranian 'New Wave.' Dariush Mehrjui's The Cow won the hearts of moviegoers at the 1971 Venice Film Festival, where it was screened amid secrecy and controversy. It tells the not-so-simple story of Hassan (Ezzatolah Entezami), a farmer who forms an unexplainable bond with his cow. But when the valued animal dies, his dedication morphs into delusional sadness, and he begins to become his cow, a dumb animal whose fate is shaped by larger forces over which it has no control. Awards/Festivals: OCIC Award - Recommendation Forum of New Film Berlin International Film Festival 1972; Venice Film Festival 1971; Chicago International Film Festival 1971
Notes Originally produced in Iran as a 16mm motion picture in 1969
Title from resource description page (viewed Aug. 6, 2013)
Credits Film editor, Dariush Mehruji ; scriptwriters, Gholam-Hossein Saeedi, Darius Mehrjui ; music, Hormoz Farhat ; photography, Fireidoon Ghovanloo
Cast Ezzatolah Entezami, Firouz Behjat-Mohamadi, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Ali Nassirian, Esmat Safavi, Jafar Vali, Mahin Shahabi, Parviz Fanizadeh, Ezatallah Ramezanifar
Notes In Farsi with English subtitles
This edition in Farsi, western (Persian)
Nominated 1971 Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Hugo
Won 1972 Berlin International Film Festival, OCIC Award - Recommendation
Subject Cows -- Drama
Farmers -- Iran -- Drama
Farm life -- Iran -- Drama
Rural poor -- Iran -- Drama
Motion pictures, Iranian
Rural poor.
Rural conditions.
Farmers.
Farm life.
Cows.
SUBJECT Iran -- Rural conditions -- Drama
Subject Iran.
Genre/Form Fiction films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Films de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Mihrjūʼī, Dāriyūsh, film director, editor of moving image work, screenwriter.
Sāʻidī, Ghulām Ḥusayn, screenwriter.
Intiẓāmī, ʻIzzat Allāh, 1924-2018, actor
Naṣīriyān, ʻAlī, 1935- actor.
Vālī, Jaʻfar, 1933 or 1934- actor.
Shahābī, Mahīn, actor.
Motion picture screenplay based on (work) : Sāʻidī, Ghulām Ḥusayn. Gāv
Other Titles Original title: Gaav