The Night Guardian
The Night Guardian is a 2022 Iranian drama film directed and produced by Reza Mirkarimi and written by Mirkarimi and Mohammad Davoudi. The film screened for the first time at the 40th Fajr [Film Festival] and received 9 nominations, where Mirkarimi won the award for Best Director and Aliakbar Osanloo received a Honorary Diploma for his acting. It was selected as the Iranian entry for the Academy Award for [Best International Feature Film|Best International Feature Film] at the 96th Academy Awards.
Premise
The film is about a naive young village boy named Rasool whose quiet and carefree life is challenged by the trusting Behnam, who is the engineer of a construction project.Cast
- Touraj Alvand as Rasool
- Laleh Marzban as Nasibeh
- Aliakbar Osanloo
- Safoura Khoshtinat
- Mohsen Kiaee as Behnam
- Vishka Asayesh
- Kiumars Pourahmad
- Fahimeh Hormozi
- Zahra Eslami
- Parham Gholamlou
- Mohammad Sadegh Malek
- Ali Ghabeshi
- Mehrad Akbarabadi
- Iman Salgi
- Navid Bani