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 a large number of Iranian cinema stars. Wheeler W. Dixon describes it as "an enormous hit in its home country."^[3]

The Script

Beyzai's scrreenplay 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

See also

• List of Iranian films
• Bahram Beyzai filmography

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. 

External links

• The Fateful Day at the Internet Movie Database

Works by Bahram Beyzai
Biography Filmography Bibliography
Films	Downpour (1971) The Crow (1977) Ballad of Tara (1979) Death of Yazdgerd (1981) Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) Perhaps Some Other Time (1988) Travellers (1992) Killing Mad Dogs (2001) The Eloquent Carpet, being an episode in Persian Carpet (2006) When We Are All Asleep (2009)
Plays	The Marionettes (1963) Evening in a Strange Land (1963) The Story of the Hidden Moon (1963) Sindbad's Eighth Voyage (1964) Four Boxes (1967) Death of Yazdgerd (1979) Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role (1981) Kalat Claimed (1982) Ardaviraf's Report (1999)
Film Scripts	Perhaps Some Other Time (1988) Travellers (1992) Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
Research	A Study on Iranian Theatre (1965) Where Is Hezar Afsan? (2012)
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