Sunday, 29.5.2022, 7.00 pm
Feature film
IR 2020 135 min, Farsi with. engl. subtitles
D: Shahram Mokri
A: Babak Karimi, Razieh Mansouri, Abolfazl Kahani, Mohammad Sareban, Adel Yaraghi, Mahmoud Behraznia
Four men want to make a statement and set fire to a cinema. Just like 40 years ago, when 422 spectators died in the flames during the infamous attack on the “Abadan Rex” in the south of the country. Starting from this event, Sharam Mokri (“Fish and Cat”, 2014) draws several threads into the present and once again proves to be a pioneer of a new generation in Iranian cinema: “Careless Crime” is visually strong, atmospheric, ambiguous and consistent. A film for the big screen that uses all the elements of cinema – time jumps, plan sequences, parallel montages, slapstick – to ask about the connection between history and the present, memory, reality and fiction.
Followed by a film discussion with the actor Mahmud Behraznia.
