Synopsis:

Valeh is an irregular troop communist. His wife seeks a life and she is against the dangerous activities of her husband. When Vale takes his wife to the hospital for childbirth, he gets arrested in a Team-house and after being tortured and interrogated in the courthouse he is sentenced to execution and is sent to the public jail. In the public jail his friends ask him to die like a hero and make effort for the continuance of the combat but he loses his combat motives despite his friends’ advises because when he dies he will no longer be, so he tries to stay alive or atleast find a better motive for dying.

Title:

Screenwriter & Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Director of Photography: Faraj Haydari
Ebrahim Ghazizadeh
Editor: Roubik Mansouri
Make-Up: Abdollah Eskandari
Set Designer: Massoud Ghandi
Mohammad – Bagher Ashtiyani
Dubbing: Manouchehr Esmaeeli
Special Effects: Ali Rastger
Morteza Rastgar
Hassan Saberi
Cast: Majid Majidi
Mohammad Kasebi
Zohreh Sarmadi
Ardalan Shoja-Kaveh
Saeed Kashan-Fallah
Esmaeel Soltaniyan
Bahman Rouzbehani
Ali-Akbar Yeganeh
Reza Cheraghi
Irandokht Dowlatshahi
Ali Hesami
Naser Forough
Ali Tavakkoli
Massoud Nabavi
Ali Shirazi
Esmat Makhmalbaf
Ebrahim Abadi
1986, color, 95 mins.

International Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation (Iran)

Festivals:

1) The 4th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran 1986.
2) “Close Up” of Mohsen Makhmalbaf in the Cinema Utopia, Paris, France 1992.
3) The 21st La Rochelle International Film Festival, France 1993.
“A Tribute to Mohsen Makhmalbaf”
4) The 14th Turin International Festival of young Cinema, Italy 1996.
5) The Festival of Iranian Films at The Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada 1997.
6) The Festival of Iranian Films at Montreal Conservatoire, Canada 1997.
7) The Festival of Iranian Films at The Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada 1997.
8) The Festival of Iranian Films at The Northwest Film Center, Portland, 1997.
9) The Festival of Iranian Films at The Film Center of Chicago, USA 1997.
10) The Festival of Iranian Films at The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA 1997.“A Tribute to Mohsen Makhmalbaf”.
11) Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, USA 1997.
12) Museum of Modern Art of New York, USA 1997.
13) Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, USA 1997.
14) The Festival of Iranian Films at The UCLA Film Archive, USA 1997.“A Tribute to Mohsen Makhmalbaf”.
15) The Festival of Iranian Films at Cleveland Cinematheque, Canada 1997.“A Tribute to Mohsen Makhmalbaf”.
16) Retrospective of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Sweden 1998.
17) The 14th Calcutta International Film Festival, India 1998.
18) The Festival of Iranian Films at The Royal Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium 1999.
19) The Festival of Iranian Films in Vienna, Austria 1999.
20) The Festival of Iranian Films at Slovenian Film Museum, Slovenia 1999.
21) The Festival of Iranian films in Leipzig, 2000.
“Retrospective of Mohsen Makhmalbaf”
22) The Festival of Iranian films in India, 2000.
“Retrospective of Mohsen Makhmalbaf”
23) The Festival of Iranian films in St. Petersburg, 2000.
“Retrospective of Mohsen Makhmalbaf”
24) Calcutta Film Festival, 2001.
25) Moscow Film Festival, 2001.
“ Retrospective of Makhmalbaf Film House”
26)A retrospective of "Mohsen Makhmalbaf”in Madras,Banglore,Viji Vada,Haydarabad , India 2001
27) Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh 2002.
“A retrospective of Mohsen Makhmalbaf”