The Old Bachelor (Pir Pesar)
Iran | 2024 | 192 mins | Persian
In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point
Director
Oktay Baraheni is an Iranian Film director and writer . He is a graduate of the Fine Arts York University Toronto, Canada with a degree in Cinema, His successful career includes several feature films, several short films and a documentary Khatab Be Parvaneha, which is a well-known Iranian poet and writer in relation to his father, Reza Baraheni, as well as him first feature film was The Pole Khaab, which was screened in the new film section of the Fajr Film Festival in 2015 And in 2016, its public release began, He also has a background in journalism.
Cast & Crew
Director – Mahdi Fleifel
Cinematography – Thodoris Mihopoulos
Editor – Halim Sabbah
Music – Nadah El Shazly
Producer – Geoff Arbourne, Mahdi Fleifel
Cast – Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbagh, Mohammad Alsurafa, Angeliki Papoulia