''The Last Step'' ( fa, پله آخر, Pelle âxar) is Ali Mosaffa's second feature film following Portrait of a Lady Far Away (2005) featuring

Leila Hatami Leila Hatami ( fa, لیلا حاتمی; born October 1, 1972) is an Iranian actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Bear, two Crystal Simorghs, two Hafez Awards, two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and three Iran's Film ...

, Ali Mosaffa, and Alireza Aghakhani. The screenplay was partly inspired by

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

's 1886 novella

The Death of Ivan Ilyich ''The Death of Ivan Ilyich'' (also Romanized ''Ilich, Ilych, Ilyitch''; russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivána Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late ...

and

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

's Short Story The Dead. The film is considered one of the few independently produced features within Iranian cinema and gathered worldwide success after its world premiere at the 47th

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...

in July, 2012.

Awards

* Best Adapted Screenplay Ali Mosaffa from the 16th Iranian House of Cinema Film Festival, 2014 *

FIPRESCI The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...

Prize for Best Film,

2012 * Crystal Globe Award for Best Actress

2012 * Crystal Simorgh for Best Adapted Screenplay, Ali Mosaffa,

Fajr International Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. T ...

2012 * Special Jury Prize at the Kerala International Film Festival 2012 * Award for Best Actor Alireza Aghakhani, Batumi International Art House Film Festival (BIAFF) 2012 * Piuculture Award at the Medfilm International Film Festival 2012

Reviews

* FIPRESCI-Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Experiment in Narrative: The Last Step
* The Hollywood Reporter
The Last Step: Karlovy Vary Film Review
* IONCINEMA
The Last Step , American Film Institute Festival Review
* American Film Institute Review
A Patchwork of Farce and Tragedy
* SBCC Film Reviews
The Last Step

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