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Never before released in the U.S., this major work by one of Iran’s most important filmmakers (who died in 1998) was made as the director was forsaking his repressive homeland for Germany. Parviz Sayyad, perhaps the most popular Iranian actor/comedian of the pre-revolution era, stars in the movie, playing a Turkish “guest worker” in 1970s West Berlin who experiences racism and other indignities while holding down a dull factory job in an alien society. “One of the great unseen films of contemporary immigrant life.” –Museum of Modern Art. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 93 min.