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

How it feels

A wealthy woman dies in an old mansion. Her relatives come to fight over the inheritance and tensions turn violent.

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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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