Gorbeh Siah, a Persian-language adventure drama released in 2020, brings Bahram Radan and Tarlan Parvaneh together under the direction of Karim Mohammad Amini for a 114-minute story about ambition and the shortcuts people take toward it.
What is GorbehSiah about?
An old proverb holds that every cat loves fish yet refuses to wet its paws, and the film builds its premise on exactly that gap between wanting and working. Its central figures want a bigger life than the one available to them, and they discover that the fastest route upward runs straight through other people. What begins as ordinary striving hardens, step by step, into a series of choices that trade someone else's footing for one's own. The story follows that arithmetic outward: a plan that looks clean on paper, a partner who reads the same plan differently, and the widening distance between what the characters say they are doing and what they are actually doing. Amini keeps the register grounded rather than sensational, letting pressure accumulate through conversation and circumstance instead of spectacle, and the running time gives the consequences room to arrive on their own schedule.
About the cast
Bahram Radan leads the cast. He has long been a familiar presence in Iranian commercial cinema and works regularly across drama and genre pictures. Tarlan Parvaneh appears alongside him, with Hossein Pourkarimi rounding out the principal players. The film is directed by Karim Mohammad Amini and performed in Persian throughout.
Context & significance
The title translates as Black Cat, and the proverb about cats, fish and dry paws sits behind the whole premise. Cataloged as both adventure and drama, the 2020 production runs 114 minutes and drew a solid, unshowy reception from viewers, placing it toward the stronger end of Iranian releases from that year by audience response. It belongs to a strand of contemporary Iranian filmmaking that examines social climbing and material ambition through ordinary characters rather than institutions, keeping the frame on private decisions and their cost.
Watching GorbehSiah on K-Time
Gorbeh Siah streams on K-Time in its original Persian audio, which is how Iranian audiences saw it. This page is open to read without signing in; playback requires logging into a K-Time account. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, with a Farsi-first interface and a catalog weighted toward Iranian cinema, so the film sits alongside other domestic titles from the same period.