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Wild Angel (1959)

Wild Angel poster
Original title
فرشته وحشی
Directed by
Mehdi Reisfirooz
Country
Iran
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A bankrupt businessman and his wife abandon their young daughter on the roadside. They then stand on train tracks intending to kill themselves, but the wife changes her mind at the last moment and they go back for their child.

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What happens

فرشته وحشی فیلمی به کارگردانی و نویسندگی مهدی رئیس فیروز محصول سال ۱۳۳۸ است. تاجری ورشکسته (مهدی رئیس فیروز) و همسرش (اشرف کاشانی) دختر خردسالشان فرشته (شامیلا بشارتیان) را سر راه می‌گذارند و به قصد خودکشی روی ریل‌های قطار می‌ایستند؛ اما زن در آخرین لحظه منصرف می‌شود و سراغ دخترشان می‌روند... (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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