The Village Boy
1966, Persian. Directed by Azizollah Rafiei.
With a fire in a village hut, the family man dies, and an urban couple takes one of the rural children named Mahmoud to the city and raises him. The mother raises her other child, Jafar. Years later, Jafar is a zealous villager who has fallen for Leila, Murad Khan's daughter. On the other hand, Jahangir Khan, Qoli Khan's son, the headman of the upper village, intends to deceive Leila. Meanwhile, a health corpsman named Mahmoud enters the village.
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Persian
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- Released
- 14 June 1966
- Original title
- پسر دهاتی
- Country
- Iran
- Written by
- Reza Shemshadian
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The Village Boy isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 14 June 1966. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Village Boy?
The Village Boy (1966) was directed by Azizollah Rafiei and stars Abbas Ghajar, Adel Roohi, Ebrahim Naderi.