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Director : Dariush Mehrjui
Producer: Dariush
Mehrjui and Faramarz Farazmand and Farabi
Cinema Foundation
Scriptwriter:
Dariush Mehrjui and Goli Taraqi
Photography:
Mahmud Kalari
Composer:
Selectiveh
Editor: Mostafa
Kherqepoosh
Art Director:
Faryar Javaheriyan, Bita Qezel-Ayaq
Sound Recorder: Jahangir
Mirshekari, Samad Baqerpoor
Sound Mix: Mirshekari,
Soleimani
Make-up: Abdollah
Eskandari
Cast: Homayun
Ershadi, Golshifte Farahani, Mohamad Reza
Shaaban Noori, Nematollah Gorji, Jafar
Bozorgi, Maryam Majd, Maryam Moqbeli
Color, 100 min. |
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Mahmud, a middle-aged poet and
writer, travels to his birth place in the Bagh
Damavand to write a book. The pear tree in
the garden reminds Mahmud of his childhood and
youth, while the od and nagging gardener keeps
reminding Mahmud of the bitter fact that all
trees in the garden have borne fruit, with the
exception of the pear tree. But the
writer's attention is directed to other aspects
of life, beyond such daily occurrences on the
earth. The pear tree takes him back to his
childhood years, and to his life and finally he
discovers the secret of the tree's silence.
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"There is a time for
everything, and every subject under the sky could
be broached at the right time. There is a
time for birth, and a time for death; a time for
destruction, and a time for construction; a time
for tearing apart, and a time for patching
together; a time for silence, and a time for
utterance." |
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Dariush
Mehrjui
Born in Tehran in
1940. Graduated in philosophy from
U.C.L.A. Directed the Diamond 33 in
1967 and then The Cow. After the
Revolution, he directed Hamoon which was
widely acclaimed by critics and
successful with the public.
Feature Films - 1967:
Diamond 33, The Cow, 1970: Mr.
Simpleton, 1972: The Postman,
1978: The Cycle, The School We
Went to, 1983: Journey to the Land
of Rim baud, 1986: The Tenants,
1987: Shirak, 1989: Hamoon,
1991: Banu, 1991: Sara,
1994: Pari, 1996: Leila. |
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Silver
Hugo in 34th Chicago Int'l
Film Festival. |
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