Dash Akol

In Shiraz, Dash Akol is respected as a man of honour; he has spent his family’s money helping his friends. He has an enemy called Kaka Rostam. In his forties he falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, whose estate he administers, but he tells nobody. One day a suitor comes for the girl, and Dash Akol finds that refusing him would go against his own code of honour. He has decided, himself, that he must hand the woman he loves to another man. The film was adapted from the story by Sadegh Hedayat. Behrouz Vossoughi plays the lead in Masoud Kimiai’s ninety five minute Iranian film, completed in 1971.