Still Life (1974) DVD-R

Starring Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hedayatollah Navid, Hibibollah Safarian, Habib Safaryan
Directed by Sohrab Shahid Saless
Print: Color
Runtime: 93 min
Genre: Drama
Language: Persian with English subtitles

An elderly railway signalman is unable to understand the meaning of “retirement” when he is handed over his retirement letter. Still Life, the film that shook Iranian cinema to its core and won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale, is an unforgettable, masterfully paced exercise in stillness and loneliness that doesn’t shrink from depicting exploitative tendencies within contemporary Iranian society.