Chess of the Wind (1976) Eng,Fre,Spa,Ger,Ita Subtitles by Mohammad Reza Aslani / 2022 REMASTER DVD - NTSC, All Region (Registered Airmail) 

The film was banned in Iran in 1979 by the then new regime and presumed lost, only to be found years later by the director's children in a junk shop. It has been painstakingly restored and was shown at the BFI London film festival in 2020.

Director: Mohammad Reza Aslani

Writer: Mohammad Reza Aslani

Stars: Fakhri Khorvash,Mohamad Ali Keshavarz,Akbar Zanjanpour

✔ Region : 0 (all Region, Region Free) - Can be played in any country

✔ Format : NTSC (1.85:1)  COLOR

✔ Running Time : 98 Min

✔ Sound : Dolby Digital 2.0

✔ LANGUAGE : PERSIAN

✔ SUBTITLE :  ENGLISH,FRENCH,SPANISH,GERMAN,ITALIAN,KOREAN, NONE 

- Storyline -

The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance.

"Paying more attention to form than content, Aslani's expertise as a dramaturge is also humbled by his coordination of atmosphere and suspense, summoning a creepily ethnic, swelling percussive score by Sheyda Gharachedaghi, CHESS OF THE WIND's climatic confrontation looks like an out-and-out horror, the paraplegic daughter gruelingly and sinuously crawls about under the dim sepia light, you can barely make out her expressions and features, she morphs into a startled feral creature, operating with the primal instinct for self-preservation, to face the unseen threat with a final showdown. Eventually, the rushed ending leaves a bathetic aftertaste and Aghdashloo's expressiveness is left largely untapped, but CHESS OF THE WIND is such a rara avis in its own terms, indefinable, claustrophobic, conforming to an unrealistic tenet of cause and effect...