Downpour (film)

Downpour (, translit. Ragbār) is a 1972 Iranian black and white movie directed by Bahram Bayzai.

Cast

 * Parviz Fannizadeh – Hekmati
 * Parvaneh Massoumi – Atefeh
 * Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz – Nazem
 * Manuchehr Farid – Rahim

About the film
Although the film circulated in various VHS and digital formats, mostly in poor quality, the only known surviving original copy of the film was a positive print with English subtitles in possession of the film maker; badly damaged with scratches, perforation tears and mid-frame splices. Restoration required a considerable amount of both physical and digital repair.

Restored in 2011 by Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project and Bahram Beyzai, the film drew quite some international attention and was shown in Italy and the US. Martin Scorsese remarked:

And Bahram Beyzai noted about his revisionist attitude that,