The Scent of Joseph's Shirt (1995) User Reviews

One of the best iranian war film

[namortezaa · 7/10 · 18 May 2022]

It is the best Iranian film in the war genre that I have seen so far, and of course the beautiful music of Majid Entezami and its great impact on the film should not be ignored.

A nostalgic for the Iranians

[ibrahimz-32228 · 9/10 · 5 June 2017]

This film is nostalgic for the Iranians. It's because of the beautiful music by Majid Entezami and even the great acting by the actors which made this film a classic. The music is so beautiful that is often used by the Iranian television as a background theme. The story is about the returning of the Iranian war captures from Iraq and their families who are waiting for them. But at the end it has a very beautiful twist of the story. While Ghafor who is disappointed about his own son helping a girl Shirin who he meets in the airport by accident to find her brother among the freed captures Shirin is finding Ghafor's son for him. Ghafor who waited for his son for years runs for him unbelieving while crying. The name of the movie itself is symbolic and is an allegory to the story of Joseph the prophet and his father Jacob who waited for 30 years to meet his missing son. Finally when a messenger was coming to give him news about his missing son Jacob who was blind by then said that i smell the scent of Joseph's shirt from the distance. His family didn't believe him but when the messenger arrived and he smelled Joseph's shirt he was able to see again.