🏆 6 wins & 14 nominations
The premise
On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?
Horror Vault's take
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1960s Iran, a detective is dispatched to investigate a mysterious suicide inside a remote shipwreck — a rusted tomb scrawled with cryptic diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. The case refuses to stay rational, blurring the line between political conspiracy and something far more uncanny. Fifty years on, unearthed recordings and documents suggest the investigation itself carried a terrible cost for those involved. Iranian auteur Mani Haghighi crafts a haunting puzzle-box that fuses Cold War paranoia with eerie, unexplained dread.
Content: Suicide Depiction, Themes Of Political Imprisonment And State Violence
Cast
Amir Jadidi
Babak Hafizi
Ehsan Goodarzi
Keyvan Haddad / Sound engineer
Homayoun Ghanizadeh
Behnam Shokoohi / Geologist
Nader Fallah
Almas
Ali Bagheri
Javad Charaki
Kiana Tajammol
Shahrzad Besharat (young)
Mani Haghighi
Himself
Kamran Safamanesh
Saeed Jahangiri
Javad Ansari
Darshan
Shahin Karimi
Shahrzad Besharat (old)
Laila Arjumand
Valleh
Manuchehr Anvar
narrator of Malakoot (voice)
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