The Cow (1969)
گاو
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
- Date of release
- 1969-01-21
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (88)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Dariush Mehrjui
Casting
- Ezzatollah Entezami — Masht Hassan
- Mahin Shahabi — Hassan's Wife
- Ali Nasirian — Islam
- Jamshid Mashayekhi — Abbas
- Firouz Behjat-Mohamadi
- Jafar Vali — Kadkhoda
- Khosrow Shojazadeh — Boy
- Esmat Safavi — Old Woman
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi — Esmayil
- Parviz Fanizadeh — Jabbar
- Mahtaj Nojoomi — Esmayil's Sister
- Ezzatollah Ramazanifar — Madman
Interesting facts
The Cow is a 1969 Iranian film directed by Dariush Mehrjui, written by Gholam-Hossein Saedi based on his own short story, and starring Ezzatolah Entezami as Masht Hassan. Some critics consider it the first film of the Iranian New Wave.
Development
The Buyid prince Majd ad-Dawla was reported to have thought of himself as a cow. He was subsequently cured of his delusion by the medieval Persian physician Avicenna. It is possible that elements of the plot of The Cow were inspired by this.
Funded by the Shah of Iran, the film's director, Mehrjui, had been forced to whitewash the buildings of the village before shooting so they did not look so neglected.
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