TEHRAN-Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 neo-noir mystery thriller “The Conversation” will be screened at the cinematheque of House of Cinema in Tehran on Wednesday.

The film screening, which is to start at 5 p.m., will be followed by a review session in the presence of film critics Arya Ghoreishi and Maziar Fekri Ershad, Mehr reported.

Written, directed, and produced by Coppola, the film has Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr, and Robert Duvall in the cast.

In the film, Hackman portrays a surveillance expert who faces a moral dilemma when his recordings reveal a potential murder.

“The Conversation” premiered at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the festival's highest prize. The film received three nominations at the 47th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Sound. It also won the National Board of Review Award for Best Film.

In 1995, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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