IRAN · 1972

Downpour

Bahram Beyzai
social displacement intellectual vs working class education cultural alienation identity crisis
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When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.

Year1972
CountryIran
DirectorBahram Beyzai
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