One man. One train. A fortune in gold. What could possibly go wrong?
Mr. Omidvar, who is a trusted employee of the bank, is assigned to transfer some gold and jewelry from Abadan to Tehran.
Direction
Nasimian squeezes maximum dread from a simple premise.
Acting
Majid Mohseni's sweating, desperate everyman carries the whole film.
Director
Farajollah Nasimian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This rare pre-revolution Iranian thriller captures 1960s Tehran's anxieties about modernization and moral decay.
Farajollah Nasimian made only a handful of films; this is considered his tightest, most Hollywood-influenced work.
IR
