Director: Amrollah Ahmadjoo -Hossein Khandan

Cast: Mohammad Fiali-Khosro Shakibai-Sadreddin Hejazi-Shohre Soltani-Mahmood Pakniat-Parviz Poorhosseini-Parviz Shahinkhou

Roozi Roozegari is a 1991 Iranian drama-history film directed by Amrollah Ahmadjoo and Hossein Khandan, set against the vast, unforgiving expanses of the Iranian desert. Running fifty minutes, it portrays rival outlaw bands preying on merchant caravans — and the moral reckoning one leader cannot escape.

What is Roozi Roozegari 14 about?

Two rival gangs of bandits have carved out territory across the sunbaked Iranian desert, systematically raiding the merchant caravans that attempt to cross it. Their violence is routine and without conscience — until the leader of one group begins to feel the weight of what his life has become. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, something inside him shifts. What drives this change, whether guilt, an encounter, or exhaustion with brutality, the film leaves deliberately ambiguous. The story follows his unsteady path as the desert world around him continues as before, indifferent to any single man's transformation.

Cast & crew

The ensemble includes Mohammad Fiali and Khosro Shakibai alongside Sadreddin Hejazi, Shohre Soltani, Mahmood Pakniat, Parviz Poorhosseini, and Parviz Shahinkhou. Shakibai in particular was a fixture of serious Iranian drama in this period, bringing a naturalistic authority to morally complicated characters.

Context & significance

Made in 1991, Roozi Roozegari belongs to a strand of post-revolution Iranian cinema that turned to historical and rural settings as a way of examining questions of justice, fate, and individual conscience removed from urban modernity. Desert-set outlaw stories held a specific resonance for audiences who recognized the landscape and its folklore. For diaspora viewers, the film offers a window into an era of Iranian cinema that was quietly producing some of the most distinctive work in world film — spare, landscape-driven, morally open-ended. It is a short work, but its brevity feels intentional: an episode from a larger human story rather than a neatly resolved narrative.

Where & how to watch

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