The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse

Directed in 1980 and released in 2013 On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s Mohsens father is going to pass away soon due to an illness however Mohsen himself has been missing for 6 months A BSc medicine student he has become a drug addict and lost himself in the slums Setting out to help him out of his conditions and deliver his mothers care to him his father starts searching for him The movie is embedded in the social conditions of the 70s AD Iran has a 70s Iranian chivalric tincture religious coloras was the climate of the Iranian society at the time and is blended with historic state propaganda For the audience of that time this movie would have received a fair score as it touches on religious notions However the issue it addresses is far more complicated and sophisticated at this age and its propaganda outlook can no longer attract significant commercial or critical attention