The Stranger and the Fog (1976) 4K Restoration
Director: Bahram Beyzai Run Time: 146 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 1976 Language: Persian (Farsi)
Starring: Esmat Safavi, Khosrow Shojazadeh, Manuchehr Farid, Parvaneh Massoumi, Sami Tahasuni
Country: Iran
Language: Persian
About the film:
Legendary Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie’s sophomore feature possesses both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream. Set around the northern coast of Iran, The Stranger and the Fog begins with a boat drifting onto the shore of a small village. The beautiful Rana (Parvaneh Massoumi) hopes the stray vessel has brought back her husband, who disappeared a year ago out on the sea. But the only passenger is Ayat (Khosrow Shojazadeh), a wounded stranger with no memory of how he ended up in this land. After gradually proving himself as a member of the community, Ayat upsets the locals by marrying Rana, and then grows increasingly paranoid about intermittently glimpsed figures that vow to avenge his misdeeds from a forgotten past.
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Bahram Beyzaie. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
About the filmmaker:
Bahrām Beyzāêi is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the son of the poet Ne’matallah Beyzai. The celebrated poet Adib Beyzai, one of the most profound poets of 20th-century Iran, is Bahram’s paternal uncle.
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