Two days in the life of Mostafa Chamran, Iran's first post-revolutionary defense minister, as he attempts to prevent the city of Paveh from falling to Kurdish separatists in 1979.
Acting
Arabnia's exhausted intensity carries every frame.
Cinematography
Mountain fog becomes another character entirely.
Direction
Hatamikia refuses easy hero worship.
Director
Ebrahim Hatamikia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Chamran's American PhD in plasma physics from UC Berkeley is never mentioned; the film prefers his guerrilla credentials.
Hatamikia made this after his own son was killed in the Iran-Iraq war, explaining the film's refusal to glorify combat despite its patriotic framing.
IR
