The Report

Gozaresh

Iran

1977

112 Min

Color

Farsi

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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CAST Kurosh Afsharpanah, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Hashem Arkan, Mehdi Montazar, Mostafa Tari

Synopsis

The movie revolves around the life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife. —IMDb

Director

Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. Since then he has made many movies and has become one of the most important figures in contemporary Iranian film. He is also a major figure in the arts world, and has had numerous gallery exhibitions of his photography, short films and poetry. He is an iconic figure for what he has done, and he has achieved it all by believing in the arts and the creativity of his mind. —World Cinema Foundation

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Zeppo

28Feb13

Kiarostami's early films are so much better than his pretentious recent stuff.

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Arsaib

21Sep12

"[The Report] was once more inspired by my own experience, a husband's argument with his wife and the problems this man had at work. I was inspired by two families I knew and I put them together as one family for the requirements of fiction, but I used amateur actors. The film was a hit. I called it 'The Report' because I wanted to do a sort of round-up of life in Tehran in the years before the revolution, the strange pressures people felt, their financial problems, moonlighting."—Abbas Kiarostami

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