The Fateful Day

CinematographyMaziar PartowAsghar Rafi'i JamEdited byMehdi RajaeianMusic byMajid Entezami1995105 minutesCountryIranLanguagePersian

The Fateful Day (Persian: روز واقعه) is a 1995 Iranian Islamic film based on a script of the same name by Bahram Beyzai. The film is directed by Shahram Assadi. Its cast includes many Iranian cinema stars. Wheeler W. Dixon describes it as "an enormous hit in its home country."^[1]

Beyzai's screenplay was already published as a well-known book ten years prior to when the film was made.^[2] The script was offered to Shahram Asadi in order to be made into a movie.

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.

Cast

• Ezzatolah Entezami as Abdullah
• Alireza Shoja Nouri
• Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz
• Jamshid Mashayekhi
• Reza Fayazi
• Zhaleh Olov
• Mehdi Fat'hi
• Hossein Panahi
• Ladan Mostofi

Production

Awards

The film won numerous awards at the thirteenth Fajr Film Festival:^[3]

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

See also

• List of Islamic films
• List of Iranian films
• Bahram Beyzai filmography

Citations

References

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

External links

• The Fateful Day at IMDb