The Night It Rained
Initially banned for seven years, the film treats the questionable and controversial newspaper story of a heroic village boy who prevented a train disaster as an antiauthoritarian, Rashomon-like puzzle.
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THE NIGHT IT RAINED An shab ke barun amad Directed by Kamran Shirdel Iran, 1967 Documentary, Short 35 min. Synopsis In northern Iran, a schoolboy from a village near Gorgan is said to have discovered that the railway had been undermined and washed away by a flood.
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- Director
- Kamran Shirdel
- Starring
- Nosratollah Karimi
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