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The Man Who Knew too Much

1984 · 95 min

A moral fable that unfolds slowly, blending everyday struggle with eerie supernatural warnings and a sobering lesson about greed.

Directed by
Yadollah Samadi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Enayat Shafiee, Jafar Vali, Morteza Ahmadi
Overview
A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities and return to his honorable life.

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Free in the UK
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Directed by
Yadollah Samadi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Enayat Shafiee, Jafar Vali, Morteza Ahmadi
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • greed
  • morality
  • redemption
  • guilt
  • war
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yadollah Samadi
Written by
Jamal Omid, Hassan Hedayat
Starring
Enayat Shafiee, Jafar Vali, Morteza Ahmadi, Ahmad Alinejad, Mohammad Barsoozian, Akbar Doudkar, Shirin Golkar, Manouchehr Hamedi
Music
Hassan Zandbaf
Cinematography
Morteza Rastegar
Runtime
95 min
Country
Iran
Languages
Persian

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