FiLmS Full: Sayehaye bolande bad (Tall Shadows of the Wind) (1979)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320423/

Country: Iran
Language: Persian

This film is based on a four page short story by Golshiri, which together we expanded it into an 85 page script. It is the story of building a scare-crow in a village and how through some events and superstition the scare-crow turns into a revered symbol. The film has a double edge sword against tyranny and how metaphysical symbols are created by people and how they are ruled by their own creation. The film has the dubious honor of being banned both before and after revolution. Although after revolution got a three day release but was brought down by the censorship after three days.

One of the founding figures of the Iranian New Wave of the 70s, Bahman Farmanara attracted attention with his second feature, a powerful adaptation of Houshang Golshiri’s Prince Ehtejab (1974). A portrait of a dying monarch increasingly trapped in his own mental space, Prince Ehtejab was one of the first Iranian films to be seen widely abroad; by 1977 Farmanara was the head of the Iranian Film Development Company. His third feature, Tall Shadows of the Wind, was completed in 1978, as the uprising against the Shah was moving into high gear. Banned by the government, the film was briefly re-released following the Islamic Revolution — only to be withdrawn from circulation once again.