Gāv = The Cow
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✎ Suggest a correctionHassan, a peasant, is the only one in his small and poor village in Iran lucky enough to own a cow. He cherishes his cow more than anything in the world. He spoils the cow like a child and lives in perpetual fear that the inhabitants of a neighboring and hostile village will steal his cow. One day, when Hassan is out of the village at work, the cow mysteriously dies. The villagers bury the cow and protectively try to convince Hassan it has only wandered off. Hassan can't believe it. In his sorrow and astonishment, he takes the place of his cow and begins to believe that he is his own beloved bovine.
Credits
- Cast
- Ezzatolah Entezami, Ali Nasirian, Jafar Vali, Jamshid Mashayekhi; First Run Features (Firm) (film distributor); Mihrjūʼī, Dāriyūsh, film director, film producer, screenwriter (editor of moving image work); Ghulām Ḥusayn Sāʻidī (screenwriter); ʻIzzat Allāh Intiẓāmī (actor); Naṣīriyān, ʻAlī, 1935- actor; Vālī, Jaʻfar, 1933 or 1934- actor; Jamshīd Mashāyikhī (actor); Fireidoon Ghovanloo (director of photography); Hormoz Farhat (composer); Ghulām Ḥusayn Sāʻidī; انتظامى، عزت الله
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Gaav
Original source: Title from container. | Originally produced as a 16mm motion picture in 1969. | Based on a story by G.H. Saedi. | Special features: interview with director Dariush Mehrjui; film notes by Godfrey Cheshire; director biography; photo gallery. | Director of photography, Fireidoon Ghovanloo ; editor, Dariush Mehrjui, Zani Khalaj ; music, Hormoz Farhat. | درتر/پردر، درش مهرج ؛ سرينپلى، غلمهسن سد & درش مهرج ؛ دتر، درش مهرج & زن خلج ؛ مس، هرمز فرهت.
Release: [Place of publication not identified] : First Run Features, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | DVD video 4 3/4 in. | stamping | monochrome | NTSC | video file | DVD video
Contents: Contents: Introduction -- The Bolouris -- Evil eyes -- Deception -- The prisoner -- Hassan returns -- Hassan's sickness -- Night invasion -- Healing rituals -- Tragic journey -- New beginnings.
Subjects: Cows -- Iran -- Drama | Farmers -- Iran -- Drama | Bereavement -- Psychological aspects -- Drama | Deception -- Social aspects -- Iran -- Drama | Villages -- Iran -- Drama | Rural poor -- Iran -- Drama | Foreign films | Bereavement -- Psychological aspects | Cows | Deception -- Social aspects | Farmers | Rural conditions | Rural poor | Villages | Iran -- Rural conditions -- Drama | Iran
Country: Iran
Language note: In Farsi, with English subtitles.
Related works: Motion picture screenplay based on (work) : Sāʻidī, Ghulām Ḥusayn. Gāv.
Original source: Title from container. | Originally produced as a 16mm motion picture in 1969. | Based on a story by G.H. Saedi. | Special features: interview with director Dariush Mehrjui; film notes by Godfrey Cheshire; director biography; photo gallery. | Director of photography, Fireidoon Ghovanloo ; editor, Dariush Mehrjui, Zani Khalaj ; music, Hormoz Farhat. | درتر/پردر، درش مهرج ؛ سرينپلى، غلمهسن سد & درش مهرج ؛ دتر، درش مهرج & زن خلج ؛ مس، هرمز فرهت.
Release: [Place of publication not identified] : First Run Features, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | DVD video 4 3/4 in. | stamping | monochrome | NTSC | video file | DVD video
Contents: Contents: Introduction -- The Bolouris -- Evil eyes -- Deception -- The prisoner -- Hassan returns -- Hassan's sickness -- Night invasion -- Healing rituals -- Tragic journey -- New beginnings.
Subjects: Cows -- Iran -- Drama | Farmers -- Iran -- Drama | Bereavement -- Psychological aspects -- Drama | Deception -- Social aspects -- Iran -- Drama | Villages -- Iran -- Drama | Rural poor -- Iran -- Drama | Foreign films | Bereavement -- Psychological aspects | Cows | Deception -- Social aspects | Farmers | Rural conditions | Rural poor | Villages | Iran -- Rural conditions -- Drama | Iran
Country: Iran
Language note: In Farsi, with English subtitles.
Related works: Motion picture screenplay based on (work) : Sāʻidī, Ghulām Ḥusayn. Gāv.
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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