The funeral of Dariush Mehrjui

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In the film, Nassirian plays Taghi, a miserable civil servant whose life spirals into chaos. He spends his days as an unhappy mail carrier and has two night jobs in order to pay his debts. His misery has caused impotence and he is experimented upon by an amateur herbalist who is one of his employers. His only naive hope is that he will win the national lottery. When he discovers that his wife is the mistress of his town’s wealthiest landowner, Taghi escapes to the local forest where he experiences a brief moment of peace and harmony.

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