The Garden of Stones - Baghe sangui (1976)

Synopsis

This story is based on an actual event and the "Garden of Stone" really exists.

A deaf-mute-shepherd, Darvish khan, living in the desert dreams that he is sitting on a big stone.

Gratefully aiming at rendering homage to the mystic shape, he begins to erect an unusual monument in its honor. lie drags the stone near to his hut, and from then on, he collects all the stones he finds and hangs them on dead trees with wires.



He eventually forms a big and strange garden that attracts the peasants of the neighborhood and then the others, as a place of pilgrimage and interest.

Darvish Khan's eldest son is called up to join the army. An officer tries to help the old man, but his call to prevent his son's being called up cannot be put through, because Darvish has cut the wire to hang his stones.



The son cannot be discharged. In the end all the people connected with the stone garden are themselves transformed into stones.

Then, when the garden is used for commercial purposes to yield profit for the family, visitors finally destroy it.

The Stone Garden won the Silver Bear prize for the best film at the Berlin Film Festival in 1976 and was shown at the Tehran, London, and Paris film festivals.

Noted for its artistic merit, and its social content. Maghsoulou, Bahman. Iranian Cinema

Cast: Ah-Seyed Ali Mirzah, Darvishkhan, Rostahian

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