Born in Tehran in 1938, Bahram Beyzaie is a playwright, scholar, theatre director and film-maker, and a major scholar of Persian theatre and ritual. His cinema draws on Persian myth, history and folk performance. Downpour (1972) and The Stranger and the Fog (1974) were important early films of the Iranian New Wave. His masterpiece Bashu, the Little Stranger, made in 1986 and held back by the censors until 1989, is about a boy from the war-torn south who is taken in by a woman in the north, and has been called the best Iranian film of its time. He later taught in the United States.
Filmography
- Downpour 1972 · IMDb 7.2 · 1,275 votes
- The Stranger and the Fog 1974 · IMDb 7.3
- Ballad of Tara 1979 · IMDb 7.4
- Death of Yazdgerd 1982 · IMDb 8.3 · 1,555 votes
- Maybe Some Other Time 1988 · IMDb 7.1
- Bashu, the Little Stranger 1989 · IMDb 7.9 · 3,928 votes
- Travellers 1992 · IMDb 7.4 · 1,408 votes
- Killing Mad Dogs 2001 · IMDb 7.6 · 3,321 votes
- When We Are All Asleep 2009 · IMDb 6.6 · 1,117 votes