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   Chess of the Wind (Persian: شطرنج باد, romanized: Shatranj-e Baad), also titled The Chess Game of the Wind, is a 1976 Iranian film written and directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani. [1] The film was screened only once before the 1979 revolution in Iran and was accompanied by a negative reception.

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3. www.criterion.com › current › postsChess of the Wind: The Glorious Miniature of an Upheaval

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   Sep 28, 2022 · Chess of the Wind: The Glorious Miniature of an Upheaval. By Ehsan Khoshbakht. Essays — Sep 28, 2022. W hen Chess of the Wind premiered in November 1976, at the fifth Tehran International Film Festival, nobody knew what to make of it.

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   Jul 20, 2022 · A film about the transition from feudalism to modernity, a process riddled with corruption and duplicity, Chess of the Wind is a miniature of Iranian society in the 1970s, even if it is set at the beginning of the last century.

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   A painterly masterpiece that's among Iran's finest, 'Chess of the Wind' was only screened once before the country's 1979 revolution rendered it lost, assumed to have been destroyed.

7. www.nytimes.com › 2021/10/28 › movies‘Chess of the Wind’ Review: A Remnant of an Iran That Used to Be

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   Oct 28, 2021 · Set on a rambling estate in early-20th-century Tehran, “Chess” is a fevered melodrama conveyed in a poetically measured style. Its opening scenes are enigmatic.

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   One of the major cinematic rediscoveries of the past decade, Chess of the Wind was way ahead of its time: its single screening at the Tehran International Film Festival in 1976 earned Aslani the scorn of critics and the indifference of audiences more enthralled by popular genre fare.

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   What is chess of the wind about?

   • A film about the transition from feudalism to modernity, a process riddled with corruption and duplicity, Chess of the Wind is a miniature of Iranian society in the 1970s, even if it is set at the beginning of the last century. Showing an acute understanding of the dynamics of that society, it also offers a premonition of the revolution to come.

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   When did chess of the wind come out?

   • W hen Chess of the Wind premiered in November 1976, at the fifth Tehran International Film Festival, nobody knew what to make of it.

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   What happened to chess of the wind?

   • After the 1979 revolution, most Iranian pre-revolutionary films were deemed pernicious to moral wellbeing and were consequently destroyed or locked away. For decades Chess of the Wind was not only unseen and largely forgotten but lost as a physical object. It became an invisible film, yet one with an underground, even mythical reputation.

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   Why did chess of the wind not get a theatrical release in Iran?

   • Owing largely to the initial poor reception of Chess of the Wind, a theatrical release in Iran never went ahead. The film’s producer claimed that it had been sold to five countries for international distribution, but in the interim the social unrest leading to the 1979 revolution put not only this film but also the entire industry on hold.

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   Who inspired chess of the wind?

   • The camera pans across the city outside the walls of the house. Shohreh Aghdashloo in Chess of the Wind. Aslani cited Johannes Vermeer as an inspiration for daytime scenes and Georges de La Tour as inspiration for the nighttime scenes.

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   Was chess of the wind doomed?

   • In fact, anything the company touched with the word wind in the title was doomed: Chess of the Wind was suppressed, while the international coproduction The Other Side of the Wind —one of two Orson Welles films the FIDCI gave financial backing to (the other one being F for Fake)—was not finished until decades after Welles’s death.

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10. www.screenslate.com › articles › chess-windChess of the Wind | Screen Slate

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    An upstairs-downstairs melodrama set at the dawn of the Pahlavi regime, Chess of the Wind luxuriates in objects—trinkets, baubles, fishbowls, vases, and jewelry (some of which double as murder weapons).