The Fateful Day

The Fateful Day (Persian: روز واقعه‎), is a 1994 Iranian film based on a script of the same name by Bahram Beyzai. The film is directed by Shahram Asadi. It is generally, but perhaps not unanimously, known as the finest religious picture in Iran[1][2] and attracts great popular and critical attention. Its cast includes many Iranian cinema stars. Wheeler W. Dixon describes it as "an enormous hit in its home country."[3]

The Fateful Day
Directed byShahram Asadi
Written byBahram Beyzai
StarringEzzatolah Entezami, Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Zhaleh Olov, Mehdi Fat'hi, Hossein Panahi, Ladan Mostofi
Release date
1995
Running time
105 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

The Script

Beyzai's screenplay was already published as a well-known book ten years prior to when the film was made.[4] The hugely lauded script was offered to Shahram Asadi in order to be made into a movie. The film was produced and immediately became a hit.[5]

Plot

The story is of a Christian youth who converts to Islam for the love of a Muslim girl at the time of Husayn ibn Ali. At the wedding, he hears voices calling for help. He leaves the ceremony and takes a journey to Karbala. But he arrives after the Battle of Karbala.

Awards

The film won numerous awards at the thirteenth Fajr Film Festival:[6]

  1. Best Makeup
  2. Best Set Design
  3. Best Musical Score
  4. Best Direction of a Second Feature Film
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See also

Citations
  1. http://chnpress.ir/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=403&Serv=3&SGr=4
  2. http://www.arianica.com/en/news/%E2%80%9C-fateful-day%E2%80%9D-iran%E2%80%99s-most-influential-religious-movie-actor
  3. Winston Dixon 1998, p.37
  4. Winston Dixon 1998, p.38
  5. http://theiranproject.com/blog/2013/11/16/bahram-beizaiis-fateful-day-is-a-matchless-play-on-ashura-writer/
  6. Winston Dixon 1998, p.37

References
  • Winston Dixon, Wheeler (1998). The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0791437827.


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