Still from The Stranger and the Fog (1974) by Baharam Beyzaie.
Still from The Stranger and the Fog (1974) by Baharam Beyzaie.
The Stranger and the Fog (Garibeh Va Meh)
2:30 pm–5:00 pm
Directed by Baharam Beyzaie (Iran, 1974, 146 min.). Farsi with English subtitles.
Freshly restored by the Film Foundation, the sophomore feature from legendary Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie possesses both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream. Set around the northern coast of Iran, The Stranger and the Fog begins with a boat drifting toward the shore of a small village. The beautiful Rana (Parvaneh Massoumi) hopes the stray vessel has brought back her husband, who disappeared at sea a year ago. But the only passenger is Ayat (Khosrow Shojazadeh), a wounded stranger with no memory of how he ended up in this land. After gradually proving himself as a member of the community, Ayat upsets the locals by marrying Rana, then grows increasingly paranoid about intermittently glimpsed figures vowing to avenge his misdeeds from a forgotten past.
“One of the most distinctive recent rediscoveries of international cinema … both a passionate romance and a teeming action film, uniting history and legend, anthropology and mysticism.” —New Yorker
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
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