Silver Bear Award at the 1976 Berlin Film Festival. I finally found this legendary movie, and with it, my top 15 Iranian movies can be made up The desert is filled with rock gardens. Darvish Khan, a 90 year old deaf and mute shepherd, has been taking care of this garden with a loving and dedicated spirit for decades. In the nearby village, he is a living legend, known as a fully armed hero who fights leopards with his bare hands and alone transports heavy rocks from the desert to his stunning garden. For children, he is a crazy grandfatherly figure, and for his own son, he is occasionally an old man who keeps running alone. In this movie, Kimiavi's visual and narrative style is very suitable for the story - for example, better than his second film 'The Stone Garden', which tells the story of a deaf mute old man who meets a saint in his dream and the saint instructs him to build a stone garden. In this movie, there is a conflict between the documentary style scenes and other highly formulaic sequences. Parviz Kimiavi (born 1939 in Tehran) is an internationally renowned Iranian (Persian) film director, screenwriter, editor, and one of the most outstanding figures in 20th century Persian cinema. Kimiavi studied photography and film at the Louis Lumi è re Film Academy and IDHEC. His works have achieved great success and have won multiple awards at important international events such as Berlin and Cannes.