Shab-e ghoozi (1965)

Original title

شب قوزی

Directed by

Farrokh Ghaffari

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This Iranian comedy adapts a story from One Thousand and One Nights to modern 1960s Tehran. It follows a series of mishaps and deceptions among city dwellers. The film was reshaped from a medieval setting because of censorship rules.

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What happens

Night of the Hunchback (Persian: شب قوزی, romanized: Shab-e Quzi) is a 1965 Iranian film comedy, directed and produced by Farrokh Ghaffari. The film script was based on a story from One Thousand and One Nights, but arranged for modern city life in Tehran. This was Ghaffari's third film after Jonub-e Shahr (The South of the City) and Arous Kodumeh? (Which One is Bride) which both didn't have a good grossing. Jalal Moghadam (another intellectual film director) and George Lichensky (an Iranian-Assyrian cinematographer) encouraged Ghaffari to make this film. At first the story was set in the medieval times as in the ancient stories of One Thousand and One Nights occurred. However, the censorship office forced Ghaffari to turn the story of the film to a modern setting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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