# The Last Step > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Last_Step > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Last_Step.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Step > Source revision: 1341840775 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The Last Step" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) 2012 Iranian film The Last Step Theatrical release poster Directed by Ali Mosaffa Screenplay by Ali Mosaffa Starring Leila Hatami Ali Mosaffa Alireza Aghakhani Hamed Behdad Cinematography Alireza Barazandeh Edited by Fardin Saheb Zamani Production company Road Film Production Distributed by Hedayat Film Release date February 11, 2012 (2012-02-11) Running time 88 minutes Country Iran Language Persian ***The Last Step*** ([Persian](/source/Persian_language): پله آخر, [romanized](/source/Romanization_of_Persian): *Pelle âxar*) is [Ali Mosaffa](/source/Ali_Mosaffa)'s second feature film, following *Portrait of a Lady Far Away* (2005), featuring [Leila Hatami](/source/Leila_Hatami), [Ali Mosaffa](/source/Ali_Mosaffa), and Alireza Aghakhani. The screenplay was partly inspired by [Leo Tolstoy](/source/Leo_Tolstoy)'s 1886 novella *[The Death of Ivan Ilyich](/source/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich)* and [James Joyce](/source/James_Joyce)'s short story "[The Dead](/source/The_Dead_(Joyce_short_story))". The film is considered one of the few independently produced features within Iranian cinema and gathered worldwide success after its world premiere at the 47th [Karlovy Vary International Film Festival](/source/Karlovy_Vary_International_Film_Festival) in July, 2012. ## Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay [Ali Mosaffa](/source/Ali_Mosaffa) from the 16th Iranian House of Cinema Film Festival, 2014 - [FIPRESCI](/source/FIPRESCI) Prize for Best Film, [Karlovy Vary International Film Festival](/source/Karlovy_Vary_International_Film_Festival) 2012 - [Crystal Globe](/source/Crystal_Globe_(Karlovy_Vary_International_Film_Festival)) Award for Best Actress [Leila Hatami](/source/Leila_Hatami), [Karlovy Vary International Film Festival](/source/Karlovy_Vary_International_Film_Festival) 2012 - [Crystal Simorgh for Best Adapted Screenplay](/source/Crystal_Simorgh_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay), [Ali Mosaffa](/source/Ali_Mosaffa), [Fajr International Film Festival](/source/Fajr_International_Film_Festival) 2012 - Special Jury Prize at the Kerala International Film Festival 2012 - Award for Best Actor Alireza Aghakhani, Batumi International Art House Film Festival (BIAFF) 2012 - Piuculture Award at the Medfilm International Film Festival 2012 ## Reviews - FIPRESCI-Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: [Experiment in Narrative: The Last Step](http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2012/karlovyvary/NKural.htm) - The Hollywood Reporter: [The Last Step: Karlovy Vary Film Review](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/last-step-movie-review-leila-hatami-karlovy-festival-346301) - IONCINEMA: [The Last Step | American Film Institute Festival Review](http://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/the-last-step-afi-fest-2012-review) - American Film Institute Review: [A Patchwork of Farce and Tragedy](https://afi-afifest.tumblr.com/post/34768254459) - SBCC Film Reviews: [The Last Step](http://sbccfilmreviews.org/?p=22709) ## External links - [*The Last Step*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2161980/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [Official Facebook Page](https://www.facebook.com/peleyeakhar) - [Instagram](http://web.stagram.com/n/thelaststep) v t e Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Films Ikiru (1952 Japanese) A Simple Death (1985 Soviet) Ivans Xtc (2000 American) The Last Step (2012 Iranian) Living (2022 British) This article related to an Iranian film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Iran-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AIran-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Iran-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Last Step](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Step) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Step?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.