Iran / original title : POSTCHI / 1972’ / Noir & blanc / status : completed / International collections
Taghi, a timid postman living with his beautiful young wife Monir on a remote Iranian estate, endures constant humiliation. Treated for sexual impotence and increasingly marginalized, he reaches a breaking point when the landowner’s Western educated nephew seduces Monir.
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the family of Dariush Mehrjui.
Press
«In the sweepstakes for the title The Most Interesting and Accomplished Filmmaker the United States Has Never Heard Of, Dariush Mehrjui has certain obvious advantages»
Roger Ebert
