After being discharged from the military service, four friends decide to establish a boarding house in Tehran, and each of them undertakes a task: one is a waiter, another is a cook, the third is a doorman, and the last one is elected as the director of the boarding house.
A fine example of the female-led melodramas of the 1950s that revived Iranian cinema after a long hiatus during WWII, The Last Night follows Monir, a happily married woman who gets blackmailed by her former lover and must rely on an actress to clear her name. There’s a striking sense of 1950s...
