LBFF is thrilled to present the UK Premiere of Oktay Baraheni’s searing tragedy, The Old Bachelor. The film comes to Riverside Studios having recently won Best Film at Rotterdam International Film Festival and Best Actor at TIFF.ro for Hasan Pourshirazi for his towering performance that must be seen.
In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers (Hamed Behdad, Mohammad Valizadegan) live with their bullying father (Hasan Pourshirazi). A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman (Leyla Hatami), with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.
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