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An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.
Directed in 1980 and released in 2013. On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s. Mohsen's father is going to pass away soon due to an illness, however, Mohsen himself has been missing for 6 months. A BSc medicine student, he has become a drug addict and lost himself in the slums. Setting out to help him out of his conditions, and deliver his mother's care to him, his father starts searching for him. The movie is embedded in the social conditions of the 70s AD Iran, has a 70s Iranian chivalric tincture, religious color-as was the climate of the Iranian society at the time- and is blended with historic state propaganda. For the audience of that time, this movie would have received a fair score, as it touches on religious notions. However, the issue it addresses is far more complicated and sophisticated at this age, and its propaganda outlook can no longer attract significant commercial or critical attention.
Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.
Zeinal Bandari is an opium dealer with a past criminal record. He is nabbed in a series of arrests on drug traffickers by Iranian DEA. He then In court is convicted of...
The cruel landlord is forcing the people to give him every girl of the village who wants to get marry. But a guy Dada is resisting. He gives the landlord a piece of land so he not to ...
Lord is the great house of happiness. His daughter Maryam and Sohrab, Saadat's son, become interested in each other. One day, the two are captured by the gendarmes, and Saadat, after guaranteeing them, forbids his son from continuing the relationship with Maryam, and in order to prevent their relationship, he orders two people to monitor Sohrab. Sohrab continues his relationship with Maryam and does not heed his father's warnings. Maryam's father also blames his wife and daughter for continuing the relationship. Sohrab and Maryam decide to run away from home. Before leaving, the two eat poisonous contaminated food that Sohrab's mother feeds the neighborhood's stray dogs. Sohrab and Maryam live together in a carousel.
A television theater written and directed by Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brother with a deformed head falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her heritage.
Nasim lives with her mother, Naneh-Roghi, in a public house. A girl named Badri, who also works in the same house, is interested in Nasim. One day, Badri shows Naneh-Roghi a photo of a man named Mehrnia, who has promised to marry her. Naneh-Roghi confesses that Nasim is the result of her illegitimate relationship with Mehrnia, and in a meeting with Mehrnia, she asks him to bring some stability to Nasim’s life...
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of his wintry palace, from where he recollects the glory days of his ancestors as well as days of degradation. Among the latter are the gruesome manner in which his cruel grandfather murdered his mother and brother, and the way that he himself caused the death of his wife.
Rad (Saeed Rad), who is suspicious of his sister's relationship with a man, burns them in a fire, and escapes on horseback into a deserted forest. Rad takes refuge in a forest hut, where a man named Schalko (Mohammad Ali Keshavarz) lives with his wife Seman (Fakhri Khorvash and his daughter (Noor)). Saman informs the villagers around the forest about Rad's presence in their hut. Frees Rad in an attack to knock him out.
