Day of Incident | Rooze Vaghe'e (1995)

Synopsis

A young Iranian filmmaker has at last made The Fateful Day ten years after the publication of the screenplay by veteran filmmaker Bahram Bayzai.

Set against an historical background, the story is about a Christian man who on the day of his marriage to a Moslem woman gears a voice that calls him for help. The man leaves the wedding ceremony in pursuit of the origin of the voice. He is thus carried to the scene of the martyrdom of the third saint of the Shiite sect.



Bayzai's impressively characterized screenplay conveys the historical background and dramatic setting and Assadi, who has studied at the school of television and cinema in Iran and the UCLA in the United States has well managed to picturize the screenplay.

Assadi's first film, Avinar, portrayed a journey by a group of chemically wounded Iraqi refugees on their way to Iran. Before that, however, he had tried to make The Fateful Day as his first picture. In fact he shot some scenes of the movie but the project came to a standstill because of financial problems among other reasons.

The Fateful Day is a turning point in the genre of Iranian costume movies. Its theme was highly favored by the Iranian cinema officials. So it is one of the really spectacular movies of Iranian cinema.

The awards it won at the 13th Fajr Film Festival will certainly strengthen its prospects at the box office and will build a solid foundation for the young director's career.

At the festival in February The Fateful Day won the awards for best film, best make-up, best production designing, best musical score and best directing of a second film by its director.

Cast: Ezzatolah Entezami , Alireza Shoja Nouri, Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Zhaleh Olov, Mehdi Fathi, Hossein Panahi, Ladan Mostofi

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Country: Iran
Language: Farsi
Color: Color
Runtime: 105 min.