Ragbar

1972 [PERSIAN]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

14
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 1265 1.3K

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Plot summary

Well-educated and humble teacher Mr Hekmati arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman who nurses her elderly mother and raises her young brother.

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Persian 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
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2.16 GB
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Persian 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by S R 8 / 10

This one surprised me. A beautiful and forgotten

This one surprised me. A beautiful and forgotten film, restored by Scorsese. This film also was on the IMDb 250 list and I am glad it was. One of the final films before the Shah was deposed, it really showed a unique culture in Iran and this romance captured it. SLC DVD.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Downpour, though conventionally enjoyable, is not to be

Downpour, though conventionally enjoyable, is not to be dismissed as frivolous. Beyzaie tells the story not as a romance but as a socially conscious melancholy comedy of sorts. Between the gaping seams, one can see the confidence that the filmmaker has imbued in every aspect of this, his first film. Leading man Fannizadeh is owed much in its success, as he renders his lonely underdog educator as fully sympathetic every step of the way.
Reviewed by frankde-jong 8 / 10

Good Iranian picture from the pre Islamic period

One of the films that started my love for cinema at the end of the eighties was "Bashu, the little stranger" (1989, Bahram Beyzaie). It felt a sort of homecoming when I recently watched "Downpour" (1972) from the same (little known) Iranian director.At the beginning of Downpour a teacher arrives in a (poor) neighborhood of Tehran, at the end he leaves. In between we see the interaction with especially a young woman but also with his pupils, his colleagues and the rest of the neighborhood.In this respect the film has a flavour of "Teorema" (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini), but this flavour comes with a lot of differences.In "Teorema" the outsider is a rather mysterious person. In "Downpour" main character Hekmati (Parviz Fanizadeh) is very likable.In "Teorema" the outsider interacts with only the members of one family and all his interactions have an erotic connotation. In "Downpour" the interactions are with a whole neighborhoodand and have different connotations.The Iranian new wave began with directors such as Abbas Kiarostami and Moshsen Makhmalbaf. Most of their films I have seen are from after the Islamic revolution. Up till "Downpour" I had only seen one Iranian film from before the revolution ("The cow" (1969, Dariush Mehrjui)). The most obvious difference is of course the women's dresses, but in "Downpour" there is more. During the scene of the school musical there is a mysterious man in the audience wearing sunglasses. According to some reviewers this is an implicit reference to the SAVAK, the secret police of the Shah. I am convinced I missed many other references to Iranian politics in these days. What for instance do the street musicians stand for that we see regularly walking through the city, without an obvious relationship with the rest of the plot?With respect to Atefeh (Parvaneh Massoumi), the love interest of Hekmati, not only her clothes are remarkable (according to Islamic standards) but also the fact that she is an (economically) independent woman. In this respect there are similarities to "Bashu", which was made in the Islamic period. In "Bashu" Bashu is the stranger and Naii (Susan Taslimi) is the strong woman.
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