Beyond the Fire
(Ansouy-e atash)
by Kianoush Ayari
Iran
Script: Kianoush Ayari
Cinematographer: Dariush Ayari
Editor: Kianoush Ayari
Music: Babak Bayat
Cast: K. Chodjazadeh, Siamak Atlassi, Atefeh Razavi, Mehrad Vafadar, N. Larian, Parvin Soleimani
Production: IR.I.B
Year: 1988
35 mm, Colour, 97 min
OV Farsi with French Subtitles
In South Iran, where a huge and harsh desert spreads, a man lives in a tiny wooden shack. He is the keeper of an oil drilling site where many flare-stacks are continuously burning. His brother, freshly released from jail, is harassing him, claiming for his share : a part of the meagre profit from selling their land to the oil company. The keeper tells him that he spent all of it. A merciless fight starts between them. When one of the brothers feels for a bare feet milk maid, his desire for love and life starts changing their relationship.
This peculiar Iranian film is little known.