The Last Night

A fine example of the female-led melodramas of the 1950s that revived Iranian cinema after a long hiatus during WWII, The Last Night follows Monir, a happily married woman who gets blackmailed by her former lover and must rely on an actress to clear her name. There’s a striking sense of 1950s Iranian cosmopolitanism, especially when the camera leaves the studio and ventures into the streets of Tehran or the ski resorts in the north of the city.

• Fazlollah ManouchehriWriter
• Hossein DaneshavarDirector

• Hossein DaneshavarCast
• AzadehMino
• Mehdi RaghabiCast
• RoyaShirin
• TabatabaiDr. Saeed
• Beyk-KhanAhmad
• Soheila SokhansanjStepmother
• Ezzatollah VosooghFather Mino
• Hooshang AzadeganianCast
• GitiMrs. Nurse
• Simin (I)nanny
• AfsharAunt