The Postman (1972)

Director: Dariush Mehrjui

Country: Iran

Award: none

Movement: Iranian New Wave

Description

Taghi, a postman, lives with his beautiful young wife on his master’s land. He is impotent. His doctor is a vet who treats him with herbal medicines. The master's nephew is a young engineer who aims to establish a pig breeding farm on his uncle’s land. The young engineer sleeps with Taghi’s wife. Taghi’s ego is hurt because of humiliation and hard work. Mehrjui’s fourth film, The Postman, is a political satire based on Georg Buchner’s play, Woyzeck.

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