Events in this feature film filled with double-meanings take place in Tehran around the outbreak of World War II. A brother and a sister hatch a plan to kill their sister-in-law. The young bride is to inherit the family possessions including the large parental home because her husband their brother has died. Brother and sister hire a group of gypsies to enact a number of frightening events, based on a play written by the brother himself. Neither the woman or the theatre group are aware of the cause of her husband’s death.The Last Act was shot on location with a relatively large budget: 3.5 million dollars, which is very much for an Iranian film. Karim-Masihi set the story in the years 1939-1941 in order to evoke the claustrophobic atmosphere in a decadent aristocratic family, which keeps its head above water by slowly selling all the possessions it has inherited. The film is a mixture of a detective thriller and a psychological drama.Khosrow Dehghan (Film): ‘We are the only observers of all this dimly-lit world, who float through the illusions, emotions, violence, realities and lies’.
