DVD
Gabbeh
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
In Farsi with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Shaghayegh Djodat, Abbas Sayahi, Hossein Moharami, Roghieh Moharami, Parvaneh Ghalandari.
Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, [2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of an elderly nomadic couple. When they wash it, a beautiful young woman emerges from the carpet to reveal the secret of the carpet. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals that the secret lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month, season after season, he had followed her family from afar, always present, always waiting, howling to her songs of love--longing for her to run away with him.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: audio commentary by critic Godfrey Cheshire ; theatrical trailer.