Other films such as Farrokh Ghaffari’s The Night of the Hunchback (1964), Ebrahim Golestan’s Brick and Mirror (1965), and Fereydoun Rahnema’s Siavush in Persepolis are all considered to be precursors as well.The first wave of Iranian new wave cinema came about as a reaction to the popular cinema at the time that did not reflect the norms of life for Iranians or the artistic taste of the society.