Son of Maryam

Infobox Film
name = Son of Maryam
country = flagicon|Iran
director = Hamid Jebeli
producer = Fereshteh Taerpoor
writer = Hamid Jebeli
music = Piruz Arjmand
starring = Mohsen Falsafin
Rafik Dergabrilian
Hadi Nainizadeh
language = Persian

"Son of Maryam" (Persian: ﭕﺴﺎﺮ ﻯ مريم Pesar-e Maryam), (1998) is an Iranian drama film directed by Hamid Jebeli and starring Rafik Dergabrilian, Mohsen Falsafin, Hadi Nainizadeh. The movie is spoken entirely in Persian and is about a young Persian boy who befriends an Armenian Priest and learns tolerance toward Christans in post-revolution Iran.

ynopsis

Rahman (Falsafin) is a milk delivery boy in a small Village in Iran and the Village's mosque crier. One day he delivers some milk to the priest (Dergabrilian) living in the Church on the outside of town. Amidst the villages preparations for Ashura, the priest's preparations for the Feast of Mary go unnoticed except by young Rahman. The young boy befriends the priest and spends his time sneaking his blind friend Davoud (Nainizadeh) into the church and helping the priest prepare for the feast, much to his father and grandmother's chagrin.

One day, while affixing a crucifix to the front of the Church, a rung on the ladder he was using breaks, and he severely injures himself. Rahman takes care of the priest until he is told to go to a nearby city, where the priest's brother lives. In the city he meets a young christian by the name of Rafik who takes him to the city's church where he observes a Christian service for the first time.

Upon his return to his home village with the brother, Rahman finds the priest is gone as the Village mourners begin their pilgrimage for Ashura.