After the death of her husband, a woman lives with her son, a cockfighter. An old admirer approaches the woman, but her son is against this new marriage.
Acting
Saeed Rad's smoldering resentment could ignite actual fires.
Direction
Gharib turns cockfighting into brutal psychological theater.
Director
Shapur Gharib
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in Iran for its unflinching portrayal of rural poverty and sexual repression, it's now a rare artifact of pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema.
The cockfighting serves as visceral metaphor for Ali's own performative masculinity — all aggression, no actual power.
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