Dame sobh

Dame sobh Persian , Dame Sobh, English title Day Break is an awardwinning 2005 independent film from Iranian director Hamid Rahmanian. It depicts a man on death row whose execution is repeatedly delayed because the family of the victim does not appear for his execution which is necessary for an execution to take place under Iranian law. Some parts of the film are filmed like a documentary docudrama, with characters addressing the camera crew or looking into the camera, but most of the scenes, including frequent flashbacks, are filmed in the traditional style of a fictional film.

Mansour Ziaee Hossein Yari is a prison inmate in Irans capital Tehran, who is awaiting his execution for murder. The film outlines his previous story in brief flashbacks He is from the small village Zir Ab probably a fictitious village since the four existing Iranian places of that name are not in the north of Tehran, where his family was farming sheep. Hoping for a better future, he convinced his parents and his wife to move to Tehran, but once there, faced difficulties keeping the job he had counted on. Although the crime he committed and its immediate antecedents are never directly shown, it appears that he killed someone, probably his employer, with a brick stone on a busy street in broad daylight. He is apprehended on the spot and later sentenced to death.Under the Islamic law used in Iran, the family of the victim has the power to pardon the perpetrators life, and they have to be present at the execution. Ziaees execution had to be delayed twice already because the family failed to come, when the film sets in on the morning of the third date fixed for his execution. The camera follows him through the procedures before an execution can take place, but ultimately, the victims family again does not show up, and the execution is postponed for anotherdays. ........

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