Derakhte Golabi filme irani e? Koja bebinam?

Yes, it is a full Iranian production directed by Dariush Mehrjui and available to stream on K-Time in original Persian audio. No VPN is needed — just sign in and watch.

Is this film based on a book?

Yes. Mehrjui adapted it from a short story in Goli Taraqqi's collection — a writer celebrated across the Iranian diaspora for capturing the inner life of Iranians living between two worlds.

Golshifteh Farahani too in e film hast?

Yes, Golshifteh Farahani appears in a supporting role alongside Homayoun Ershadi, who carries the film as the lead. It is one of her earlier screen appearances before her international career took off.

Is Derakhte Golabi sad or hopeful?

The tone is quietly bittersweet — melancholic but never bleak. Mehrjui lets the story breathe, balancing grief over the past with small moments of warmth that suggest the possibility of reconnection.

Derakhte Glabi

Name: Derakhte Glabi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri

Director: Dariush Mehrjui

Cast: Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri

Derakhte Golabi (The Pear Tree) is a 1998 Iranian drama-romance film directed by Dariush Mehrjui, adapted from a short story in Goli Taraqqi's celebrated collection. A quiet, introspective work, it unfolds around memory, longing, and the weight of roots left behind.

What is Derakhte Glabi about?

A middle-aged Iranian man returns to his childhood home after years abroad and finds the old pear tree still standing in the courtyard. As he walks through familiar rooms now altered by time, memories surface — of his mother, of a lost love, of choices that shaped his life. The house becomes a mirror reflecting what he has gained and what has slipped away forever. The film observes his solitary reckoning without melodrama, letting silence and landscape carry the emotional current. A chance encounter with a young woman living nearby gradually draws him out of his isolation, raising quiet questions about belonging, second chances, and whether home is a place or a feeling one carries.

Cast & crew

Homayoun Ershadi, widely recognized internationally for his lead role in Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry, anchors the film with his characteristic restraint. Golshifteh Farahani — who would later earn global recognition — brings warmth and naturalism to her supporting role. Mohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri rounds out the principal ensemble with understated presence.

Context & significance

Dariush Mehrjui is one of the founding architects of the Iranian New Wave, whose debut Gav (The Cow, 1969) helped define modern Persian cinema. Derakhte Golabi represents the introspective, literary strand of his work — films built from short fiction rather than genre convention. For diaspora viewers, the film speaks directly to the experience of return: the disorientation of familiar spaces grown strange, the persistence of language and smell and seasonal rhythms even as relationships have shifted. Goli Taraqqi's source prose has long been beloved by Iranians outside Iran for exactly this emotional register.

Where & how to watch

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