The Experience | |
Director: | Abbas Kiarostami |
Country: | Iran |
Language: | Persian |
Runtime: | 60 minutes |
The Experience (fa|تجربه, Tajrobe) is a 1973 Iranian feature film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It is Kiarostami's feature-length directorial debut.
Mamad, an orphaned teenager, works as a messenger boy in a photographic studio, where he also sleeps at night. He falls platonically in love with a girl from a wealthier class. One day, thinking he sees her smiling at him, he decides to go to her house and ask for a job as a servant, so that he can be closer to her, but he receives only a decisive refusal.