The Chess Game of the Wind (1976)
- Original title
- شطرنج باد
- Directed by
- Mohammad Reza Aslani
- Genre
- drama film, thriller film
- Country
- Iran
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 41 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.
How it feels
A wealthy woman dies in an old mansion. Her relatives come to fight over the inheritance and tensions turn violent.
slow-burntensebleakunsettlingvisually lushatmosphericbrooding
What happens
Chess of the Wind (Persian: شطرنج باد, romanized: Shatranj-e Baad), also titled The Chess Game of the Wind, is a 1976 Iranian film written and directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani. The film was screened only once before the 1979 revolution in Iran and was roundly condemned by film critics for its violence and homosexual themes, leading to an official ban by the Iranian government. The negative and all prints were thought to have been destroyed. The film negative was rediscovered by the director's children 38 years later in 2014, for sale in a Tehran junk shop. After an extensive restoration the film was re-released in 2020 to wide acclaim. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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