The history behind Iranian New Wave

The era known as Iranian New Wave became a scholarly and cultural trend in Iranian Cinema. Back then Cinema was a marketable commodity in which it was used as mass- entertainment. The origin of cinema came out in the twentieth century with fiction and art as a form of cultural expression. Dynamics that lead to the rise of the New Wave in Iran are part due to the inner conditions that were due to politcal and intellectual movement at that time. An amorous ambiance was developing after the 1953 coup in Iran , bringing arts and literature. In the 1960's it took shape and was considered as the "Golden Era." Iranian New Wave films are affluent with poetry and realistic images. In 1969 Dariush Mehrjui's The Cow was the first film released to the audience and soon after that 40 to 50 other films were created establishing the New Wave Cinema.