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Director : Dariush Mehrjui 
Producer: Dariush Mehrjui and Faramarz Farazmand and Farabi Cinema Foundation 
Scriptwriter: Dariush Mehrjui and Goli Taraqi 
Photography: Mahmud Kalari 
Composer: Selectiveh 
Editor: Mostafa Kherqepoosh 
Art Director: Faryar Javaheriyan, Bita Qezel-Ayaq 
Sound Recorder: Jahangir Mirshekari, Samad Baqerpoor 
Sound Mix: Mirshekari, Soleimani 
Make-up: Abdollah Eskandari 
Cast: Homayun Ershadi, Golshifte Farahani, Mohamad Reza Shaaban Noori, Nematollah Gorji, Jafar Bozorgi, Maryam Majd, Maryam Moqbeli 
Color, 100 min.
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Mahmud, a middle-aged poet and writer, travels to his birth place in the Bagh Damavand to write a book.  The pear tree in the garden reminds Mahmud of his childhood and youth, while the od and nagging gardener keeps reminding Mahmud of the bitter fact that all trees in the garden have borne fruit, with the exception of the pear tree.  But the writer's attention is directed to other aspects of life, beyond such daily occurrences on the earth.  The pear tree takes him back to his childhood years, and to his life and finally he discovers the secret of the tree's silence.

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"There is a time for everything, and every subject under the sky could be broached at the right time.  There is a time for birth, and a time for death; a time for destruction, and a time for construction; a time for tearing apart, and a time for patching together; a time for silence, and a time for utterance."

Dariush Mehrjui  
Born in Tehran in 1940.  Graduated in philosophy from U.C.L.A.  Directed the Diamond 33 in 1967 and then The Cow. After the Revolution, he directed Hamoon which was widely acclaimed by critics and successful with the public. 
Feature Films - 1967: Diamond 33, The Cow, 1970: Mr. Simpleton, 1972: The Postman, 1978: The Cycle, The School We Went to, 1983: Journey to the Land of Rim baud, 1986: The Tenants, 1987: Shirak, 1989: Hamoon, 1991: Banu, 1991: Sara, 1994: Pari, 1996: Leila.
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Silver Hugo in 34th Chicago Int'l Film Festival.

 

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