Yek Mard O Yek Shahr ba zir-nevis farsi dare?

The film streams on K-Time in its original Persian-language audio. No separate Persian subtitles are currently attached, but the dialogue is in Farsi throughout.

Is this an Amir Shervan film I can watch online?

Yes. Yek Mard O Yek Shahr is available to stream on K-Time on any device — TV, phone, or browser — with no VPN or geo-restriction. A subscription gives you full access.

Behrouz Vossoughi too in-film chi naghshi dare?

Vossoughi plays Ahmad, a driver whose recurring psychological crises drive the entire story. The role is one of his more internalized early performances, built on physical restraint rather than dramatic outburst.

What genre is Yek Mard O Yek Shahr — drama ya thriller?

The film straddles both: it has the slow-burn tension of a thriller built around pursuit and escape, wrapped in a social-drama framework that takes its protagonist's mental suffering seriously rather than using it as mere plot device.

Yek Mard O Yek Shahr

Name: Yek Mard O Yek Shahr
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1971
Duration: 103 min
Cast: Behrouz Vossoughi, Arman, Marjan, Reza Beyk Imanverdi

Director: Amir Shervan

Cast: Behrouz Vossoughi, Arman, Marjan, Reza Beyk Imanverdi

Yek Mard O Yek Shahr is a 1971 Iranian drama-thriller directed by Amir Shervan, starring Behrouz Vossoughi in one of his grittier early roles. The film traces a troubled man's repeated escapes from institutional custody through the streets of a sprawling Iranian city.

What is Yek Mard O Yek Shahr about?

Ahmad works as a driver, but chronic psychological distress repeatedly lands him in a psychiatric facility. Each time he is released or breaks free, the city becomes his maze — familiar streets turning hostile and strange. During one escape he seeks refuge in the home of Zhale, a nurse, and a fragile bond forms between them. Authorities close in, but Ahmad slips away again, pushing deeper into an urban landscape that reflects his fractured inner state. The film builds quiet tension through Ahmad's repeated cycles of confinement and flight, asking how much a city can contain — or abandon — a man it cannot understand.

Cast & crew

Behrouz Vossoughi, one of pre-revolution Iranian cinema's most magnetic leading men, carries the film's emotional weight with a raw physicality that defined his reputation. Arman and Marjan bring warmth and menace respectively to the supporting roles, while Reza Beyk Imanverdi — a veteran presence in classic Iranian film — anchors the film's dramatic confrontations. Director Amir Shervan, known for genre-inflected commercial films, gives the ensemble room to breathe.

Context & significance

Made in 1971, just years before the revolution reshaped Iranian cultural life, this film belongs to the golden decade of Persian popular cinema when genre filmmaking — thriller, melodrama, social realism — flourished for a mass audience. Titles like this one preserved in the catalog are windows into the everyday texture of pre-revolution Iran: the city streets, the working-class protagonist, the institutions that confine and release. For diaspora viewers, watching Ahmad move through those streets carries a particular resonance — a reminder of a world their families navigated before exile scattered them across continents. The film's empathy for the mentally ill protagonist was unusually frank for its era.

Where & how to watch

Yek Mard O Yek Shahr is available now on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Subscribers can cancel anytime.