Travellers

Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Bahram Beyzai

Year:
1998

Time:
90 minutes

Language:
Farsi with English subtitles

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This film is currently out-of-print.

A daring mix of the traditional Iranian passion play and an experimental narrative style, Travellers is the story of a wedding ceremony which turns into a funeral wake when the bride's sister and her entire family are killed in a traffic accident.

". . .a brilliant exposition of the themes of death and predestination, (it) incorporates most of Beyzai's stylistic and thematic preoccupations—the alienated identity, theatrical setups, camerawork, sound effects, music, multiplicity of characters, time lapses, etc.—all brought together and unified into a homogeneous whole by the director's unfailing overall control."
—Jamil Omid, International Film Guide