The Postman

(Postchi)
(The Mailman)

Dariush Mehrjui
Iran, 1972

4K Digital Restoration

featuring

Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Jaleh Sam, Ahmad Reza Ahmadi,

Legendary filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui, whose incendiary 1969 film The Cow announced the Iranian New Wave to the world, followed up with this adaptation of Georg Büchner’s notorious tale of madness, Woyzeck, here set in contemporary Iran. For Amos Vogel in the Village Voice, the film “firmly establishes Mehrjui as a major talent whose successful fusing of pathos and humor and preoccupation with the poor resembles in its ferocity nothing less than Chaplin or the early De Sica.” One of Iran’s most successful, creative directors, Mehrjui was tragically murdered in 2023, along with his wife and collaborator, Vahideh Mohammadifar. 

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Dariush Mehrjui
Based On
  • the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
Cinematographer
  • Houshang Baharlou
Language
  • Farsi
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 104 mins
Source
  • Academy Film Archive
Permission
  • Janus Films
Additional Info
  • Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the family of Dariush Mehrjui. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

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