--- title: 'The Chess Game of the Wind (1976)' type: 'film' director: 'Mohammad Reza Aslani' released: '1976-01-01' runtime_minutes: 99 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'Iran' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-chess-game-of-the-wind-1976' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318069/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Chess Game of the Wind (1976) 1976 · 99 min · Drama, Thriller · Iran Original title: شطرنج باد ## Synopsis Chess of the Wind, also titled The Chess Game of the Wind, is a 1976 Iranian film written and directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani. The film was screened only once before the 1979 revolution in Iran and was roundly condemned by film critics for its violence and homosexual themes, leading to an official ban by the Iranian government. The negative and all prints were thought to have been destroyed. The film negative was rediscovered by the director's children 38 years later in 2014, for sale in a Tehran junk shop. After an extensive restoration the film was re-released in 2020 to wide acclaim. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mohammad Reza Aslani](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohammad-reza-aslani) - **Screenplay:** [Mohammad Reza Aslani](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohammad-reza-aslani) - **Original Music Composer:** [Sheida Gharachedaghi](https://cinepixo.com/people/sheida-gharachedaghi) - **Director of Photography:** [Houshang Baharlou](https://cinepixo.com/people/houshang-baharlou) - **Editor:** [Abbas Ganjavi](https://cinepixo.com/people/abbas-ganjavi) ## Cast - [Fakhri Khorvash](https://cinepixo.com/people/fakhri-khorvash) - [Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohammad-ali-keshavarz) - [Akbar Zanjanpour](https://cinepixo.com/people/akbar-zanjanpour) - [Shohreh Aghdashloo](https://cinepixo.com/people/shohreh-aghdashloo) - [Hamid Ta'ati](https://cinepixo.com/people/hamid-ta-ati) - [Annik Shefrazian](https://cinepixo.com/people/annik-shefrazian) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: https://chessofthewind.com/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-chess-game-of-the-wind-1976 Film facts: Wikidata (Q5867554); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.