Nostalgia

alexqt my dear fellow

you protest linking the movie clip with politics then go on commenting on the old regime.  Your comment on dictatrorships in Europe is hillarious and even more so is "shah was a great patriot"!  Patriots do not sell out their country and nation to foreigners. He did!   In retrospect, he could be forgiven because he was a total Idiot.

opinion based on

Individual experience is irrelevant because it cannot be generalized to a whole nation.  Such generalization must be based on research and evidence not personal experience of one or a few families.  I stand by my comment about the absence of social and economic justice for the masses and deadly corruption at the highest levels whose beneficiaries are mostly in exile now dreaming of the good 'ol days.

Part of our art history

It was so refreshing to watch Forough.

 I am happy and pleased to see this historical clip is somehow has been saved.  

deh

Why blaming,,,why?

I dont understand why everybody blaming shah for every single thing. This movie was made for about 40 years ago....we still had dictatorships in european countries. Ask the elder ladies how life was in the western country for 40 years ago, life was not so justify for the women at that time, not even in some european countries. Shah was a dictator, no doubt about that, but he was also a great patriot. 

It was not his fault that women were inferior to men. It was the Islamic and Iranian culture. We should blame ourselves. We have to accept that. Once we have accepted it, we will have democracy!

Fussygorilla

It was the "common people", the 90% of the population who were deprived of economic and social justice who rebelled against the elitist and corrupt system.

I dont agree with what you said. As the matter of fact, during the shah many people upgraded to middle class , including my family. I dont think many of them were the victim of economic and social injustice. They were just a bunch of "namak be cheshm haroom."

statira

Right.  your choice of word "common people' is very revealing indeed. It was the "common people", the 90% of the population who were deprived of economic and social justice who rebelled against the elitist and corrupt system.  I agree that they had the choice then and most opted for chadors and scarves. Someday soon, hopefully, the "choice" will return.

Fussygorilla

Women back then were free to wear whatever they wanted. There was behejab and bahejab. Most women in small cities still wore hejab. This movie is about the way common people used to be. It's not like they forced the actors to wear chador and rosari.

Looks like a Commies collaborative job

First, the info in the Persian text is wrong. FF is the bride (to be)'s sister not the bride. Second, all the participants are revamped commies (Golestan), FF (Golestan's girl friend and a  former commie) and their wives (Shamloo's wife) or in one case a Mola-Commie (Al Ahmad, who declined the part of the groom). 

All in in all, kheili loos bood. 

modernization western style on women liberation front

was doomed to fail as it's evident from this movie! but, than again, it was a bold move which deserves respect, those against it back then were gutless yellow hillbillies with or without a PHD.

About this film

Which one is Forough?  I guess the little girl with Chador who serves tea?  It may be useful for most I.C posters here to notice that in 1961, women were wearing either a headscarf(one) and Chador, the other two. And, this was during the so-called "women's liberation" era of the Pahlavi dictatorship.