FREE ON YOUTUBE The Cow (1969)

FREE ON YOUTUBE: The Cow - Gaav (1969) (engl. subt.). Today, on Sunday, the most beautiful day to stare at, I played Netflix and Amazon Prime again. Do you think those two players will choose a Sunday movie for me? Of course, both providers only have a very limited choice. If I enter Hitchcock, I can be happy about two goals. But what about the evaluation of my data? Did Netflix and Amazon Prime do their homework and count me thoroughly? No. They're offering me things I don't... want to see. Cucumbers. Films I didn't buy for our video store. All right. What about very simple blockbusters? But please not for 3,99 Euro additionally. That's bullshit, I've already got a month's subscription! In our video library we lend the new Marvel for only one Euro! But: Stupidly run. Popular movies can't afford Netflix and Amazon Prime. So I simply created an alternative on cinegeek.de. A Youtube finder for free. All movies I find on YouTube are labeled FREE ON YOUTUBE. Only good movies, of course! Those that we also lend in our video store, because you or I like them! Important: We are not interested in money. We choose the films we love! Not those that are profitable (=bad). How about The Cow, this wonderful and poetic masterpiece from Iran? There is currently nowhere on DVD and of course neither on Netflix, nor Amazon Prime. No surprise. - During the 50's and 60's Iranian movies resembled Bollywood's. They sang and danced, although on a technically much lower level. The men were tough guys, the women were Madonnas or whores. Or both. Or something like that. During the late 1950s, however, a new wave also developed in Iran. Poetic, silent films, close to Persian literary tradition, were screened at film festivals. They showed life as it actually was: hard and arduous - and in this they resembled Italian neo-realism. The Cow from 1969 is the most beautiful of them! But could one sell such a strict work abroad that was so strongly based on the local culture in Iran? In Iran, however, The Cow had a pioneering effect. Who knows the story of Ayatollah Khomeini, who after all wanted to burn down all the cinemas after the 1979 revolution? But then he saw The Cow and decided that FILM was something useful after all. If you look at today's world successes from Iran, you will notice the great reverberation of The Cow. The film follows the short story by left-wing writer Gholamhossein Saedi. In the center is Mash Hassan (Ezatollah Entezami), who owns the only cow in the village. There is an almost transcendent bond between him and the animal. That's why he can't believe the villagers that the cow has run away one day. He sits all alone, waiting, looking out into the desert. The moment he lets all hope go, he slowly seems to transform himself into the cow, making similar sounds and trying out her hay. He or she calls upon Hassan to protect them from human cruelty...