Le premier long métrage de Bahram Beyzaie sur un instituteur bien intentionné de Téhéran assailli par les revers de fortune a connu un énorme succès en son temps, mais était tombé dans l'oubli dans l'Iran post-révolutionnaire. Cette version présente le film tel qu'il a été restauré en 2011 par la World Cinema Foundation de la Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna / Laboratoire L'immagine Ritrovata, avec la participation de Bahram Beyzaie lui-même.

Titre original Downpour
Titre allemand Downpour
Titre français Downpour
Autres titres Downpour
Réalisation Bahram Beyzaie
Pays Iran
Formats DCP
Scénario Bahram Bayzai
Montage Mehdi Rajaian
Musique Sheyda Gharachedaghi
Image Mehrdad Fakhimi
Son Gilles Barberis
Production Barbod Taheri
Durée 128 Min.
Langue Farsi/e
Acteurs
Parviz Fannizadeh
Parvaneh Massoumi
Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz
Jamshid Layegh
Esmat Safavi
Hossein Kazbian
Manuchehr Farid
Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad
Distinctions

Restored in 2011 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Bahram Beyzaie.  Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute.

«During Downpour, the equations of commercial and intellectual films were the same. The common morality of the action/drama films of the commercial cinema had a tone of political ideology and social activism. The intellectual films were praised for communicating with the mass culture. In that sense, I don’t want to be popular. Many of these (popular) moralities, in my opinion, are wrong and we are all victims of them. So, I have betrayed my people if I endorse them. I have deviated from the morals of the political parties, hence they have labeled me (inaccessible), not the people. At the heart of my harsh expression, there is a love and respect, for the people, that does not exist in superficial appraisals of the masses. … my audiences are those who strive to go one step further, not those who are the guardians of the old equations nor those who dread self examination and self reflexivity.» Bahram Beyzaie


«I’m very proud that the World Cinema Foundation has restored this wise and beautiful film, the first feature from its director Bahram Bayzaie. The tone puts me in mind of what I love best in the Italian neorealist pictures, and the story has the beauty of an ancient fable – you can feel Bayzaie’s background in Persian literature, theater and poetry. Bayzaie never received the support he deserved from the government of his home country – he now lives in California – and it’s painful to think that this extraordinary film, once so popular in Iran, was on the verge of disappearing forever. The original negative has been either impounded or destroyed by the Iranian government, and all that remained was one 35mm print with English subtitles burned in. Now, audiences all over the world will be able to see this remarkable picture.» Martin Scorsese

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