THE STRANGER AND THE FOG 4K Restoration Trailer: Hidden Gem of the Iranian New Wave is Unearthed

A hidden gem of Iranian cinema has been unearthed and restored in 4K. Bahram Beyzaie’s mythical 1974 sophomore film The Stranger and the Fog was banned in Iran for decades following the Revolution there, but it’s finally being brought back to the world thanks to Janus Films and Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation. The restoration premiered at last year’s NYFF in the Revivals section and will undoubtedly hit The Criterion Collection soon. A new trailer has arrived ahead of its release at NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center, before expanding nationwide.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Legendary Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie’s sophomore feature possesses both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream. Set around the northern coast of Iran, The Stranger and the Fog begins with a boat drifting onto the shore of a small village. The beautiful Rana (Parvaneh Massoumi) hopes the stray vessel has brought back her husband, who disappeared a year ago out on the sea. But the only passenger is Ayat (Khosrow Shojazadeh), a wounded stranger with no memory of how he ended up in this land. After gradually proving himself as a member of the community, Ayat upsets the locals by marrying Rana, and then grows increasingly paranoid about intermittently glimpsed figures that vow to avenge his misdeeds from a forgotten past.

Check out the restoration trailer and poster below.

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