''Brick and Mirror'' (Persian title: ''Khesht o Ayeneh'' - '' fa, خشت و آینه'') is a 1964
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian
Persian-genre drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Ebrahim Golestan
Ebrahim Golestan ( fa, , born 19 October 1922) is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975.
He was closely associated with the eminent Iranian poet Forou ...
and starring
Zakaria Hashemi,
Akbar Meshkin,
Pari Saberi,
Jamshid Mashayekhi
Jamshid Mashayekhi ( fa, جمشید مشایخی , November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019) was an Iranian actor.
Career
Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was ''Brick and Mirror ''(1965, Ebrahim Golest ...
,
Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz and
Manouchehr Farid. In July 2018, it was selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section at the
75th Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
Hashem (
Zakaria Hashemi) is a taxi driver who finds a baby child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young lady. He and his girlfriend, Taji (Tajolmolouk Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.
References
External links
1964 films
1964 drama films
Iranian black-and-white films
1960s Persian-language films
Iranian drama films
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