Soheila Sokhansanj

A fine example of the female-led melodramas of the 1950s that revived Iranian cinema after a long hiatus during WWII, The Last Night follows Monir, a happily married woman who gets blackmailed by her former lover and must rely on an actress to clear her name. There’s a striking sense of 1950s Iranian cosmopolitanism, especially when the camera leaves the studio and ventures into the streets of Tehran or the ski resorts in the north of the city.

A Lost Persian Film. The young man saves a rich girl from drowning at sea, and this incident leads to an acquaintance and then a mutual love. The girl hires the young man as her steward. The girl's stepmother falls in love with the young man, but the young man pays no attention to her. To attract her attention, the stepmother resorts to magic and gives her a potion that causes madness. The young man escapes and the girl pursues her. A storm breaks out, so severe that the house catches fire and the stepmother is also burned in it. The young man falls from the mountain and, due to a blow to the head, regains his senses, finds his daughter, and from then on they begin a peaceful life together.