Is Parviz a real Iranian film or an international production?

Parviz is a fully Iranian production, written and directed by Majid Barzegar and filmed in Iran. It screened internationally and holds a 7.1 rating on IMDb, reflecting the critical attention it received from global festival audiences.

Does Parviz have English subtitles or Persian dub on K-Time?

On K-Time, Parviz streams in its original Persian audio. English subtitles are available for viewers who want them. There is no dubbed version — the original Haftvan performance, in Persian, is the recommended way to experience the film.

Koja bebinam filme Parviz ba Levon Haftvan? (Where can I watch it?)

You can watch Parviz on K-Time at ktime.app — no extra download required, no VPN needed. It plays directly in your browser or on your Android TV and phone app with a K-Time subscription.

Is Parviz a comedy or a drama?

Parviz is classified as a drama, but it carries a strong thread of dark, uncomfortable humor. The film finds irony in its protagonist's stubborn passivity without ever softening the genuine sadness underneath — making it feel closer to tragicomedy in practice.

Parviz

Name: Parviz
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012
Duration: 107 min
Cast: Levon Haftvan

Director: Majid Barzegar

Cast: Levon Haftvan

Parviz is a 2012 Iranian drama film directed by Majid Barzegar, starring Levon Haftvan as a middle-aged man whose comfortable, inert life collapses when his widowed father decides to marry again, forcing a reckoning he has spent decades avoiding.

What is Parviz about?

For fifty years, Parviz has drifted through life in his father's house, unmarried, unemployed, and perfectly content with the arrangement. He expects nothing to change. Then his elderly father announces he intends to remarry — and with that single decision, the unspoken contract that has sustained Parviz's existence is torn up. Suddenly faced with the prospect of displacement, Parviz must confront not only the practical question of where he will live, but the far more uncomfortable truth of who he actually is. The film follows this slow-burning unraveling with patient, unflinching observation, letting Parviz's passive-aggressive nature and stubborn refusals carry the full weight of the drama.

The K-Time take

Barzegar directs with deliberate restraint, trusting Haftvan's layered, largely wordless performance to communicate an entire psychology. The film's uncomfortable comedy and its quietly devastating portrait of arrested development have earned it a reputation as one of the sharper character studies in contemporary Iranian cinema.

Cast & crew

Levon Haftvan, a theater director and activist by background, carries nearly every scene as Parviz — his physical presence and studied passivity making the character simultaneously pitiable and maddening. Director Majid Barzegar, known for precise, observational filmmaking, draws from Haftvan a performance built on stillness and suppressed agitation rather than conventional dramatic display.

Context & significance

Parviz sits within a strong tradition of Iranian social-realist cinema that examines family obligation, masculinity, and the quiet violence of economic dependency. For diaspora viewers, the film resonates on multiple levels: the multigenerational household as both refuge and trap, the way patriarchal expectation can freeze a person in permanent adolescence, and the particular tension that arises when that system is disrupted from within. Barzegar approaches these themes without sentimentality, producing a film that feels less like a melodrama and more like a compressed sociological portrait — precise, darkly funny, and genuinely unsettling in its empathy for a man who is difficult to like.

Where & how to watch

Parviz is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. No VPN is required and there is no geo-blocking — stream directly on the web, your TV, or your phone. Subscription plans include cancel-anytime flexibility.