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Original name: The Old Bachelor
English name: The Old Bachelor
Year: 2024
Run time: 192 minutes
Language: Farsi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Iran
Director: Oktay Baraheni
Producer: Arsalan Baraheni, Babak Hamidian, Hanif Sorouri
Cast: Leila Hatami, Hamed Behdad, Hassan Pourshirazi, Mohammad Valizadgan
Screenplay: Oktay Baraheni
Cinematographer: Adib Sobhani
Editor: Reza Shahbazi
Sound Designer: Ahsan Afsharian
Music Composer: Hesam Naseri
Costume Designer: Azadeh Ghavam
Production Designer: Anahita Taymourian
Production Company: Seven Springs Pictures
World Sales: Seven Springs Pictures
Iranian film director and writer Oktay Baraheni (1974, Iran) holds a degree in Cinema from York University Toronto, Canada. His father was well-known Iranian writer and intellectual Reza Baraheni. Oktay Baraheni's debut feature, Bridge of Sleep (2016), drew inspiration from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, and his sophomore feature channels the dark soul of Shakespeare's family tragedies. In 2024, Oktay made his second feature film, The Old Bachelor, which is also inspired by The Brothers Karamazov. The Old Bachelor drew the critiques and juries' attention during its premiere at 2024 IFFR while it won the best film from Big Screen there.
In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.
