This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Heddat for the 1989
Rakhshan Banietemad film Foreign Currency written by Dariush
Moaddabian and and Farid Mostavi and starring Ali Nassirian. Plot
summary: Office worker Morteza A. dreams one night that he has
acquired $50,000. He goes everywhere trying to convert the dollars to
local currency but does not succeed. When he awakens and finds
himself without any dollars he cannot accept the reality. They take
him to a sanitorium.
Cast and crew: Rakhshan Banietemad, Dariush Moaddabian, Farid
Mostavi, Ali Nassirian, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jahangir Forouhar,
Mahtaj Nojoomi, Rasul Najafian, Ali Ramez, Ramin Poor Iman, Mohammad
Kadkhodai, Esfandiar Mavandadi
This is a 26.75" x 38.5" Iranian poster for the 1987 Naser Taghvai
film Captain Khorshid based on the 1937 Ernest Hemmingway
novel To Have and to Have Not, screenplay by Naser Taghvai and
starring Dariush Arjmand as Captain Khorshid. Plot summary: Khaje
Majed [Jafar Mohaddes] reports Captain Khorshid as a smuggler and the
smuggled cigarettes in his Persian Gulf launch are unloaded and
burned. A broker named Farhan [Ali Nassirian] comes into the port
wanting to move a few political fugitives across the maritime border.
He contacts Captain Khorshid. Captain Khorshid cooperates with him
thinking his launch will be seized.
Cast and crew: Naser Taghvai, Ernest Hemingway, Dariush Arjmand,
Ali Nassirian, Saeed Poursamimi, Parvaneh Massoumi, Fathali Oveisi,
Jawad Roshan, Ahmad Alinejad, Reza Babolian, Asghar Bichareh, Ali
Asghar Garmsiri, Ali Gharshasbi, Sadreddin Hejazi, Jafar Mohaddes,
Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Mohammad Namazi
This is a 26.5" x 38.75 Iranian poster designed by Shaqaqi for the
1987 film The Stone Lion written and directed by Massood Jafari
Jozani and starring Ali Nassirian as Aliyar. The story is a costume
drama set in southwestern Iran in the 1920s; the film won the award
for best screenplay, best sound mix and best music and was nominated
for best film at the 1987 Fajr Film Festival in Tehran. Plot summary:
The body of an Englishman killed with a scythe is found laying across
some oil pipes in the Bakhtiari tribal area. Kuhyar, [Ali Reza
Shoja-Nuri] son of clan chief Aliyar [Ali Nassirian] and Khodamorad,
[Ali Farhadi] a maker of stone lions, find the corpse and bury it. An
agent named Ameri [Valiollah Shirandami] is sent to the area to
investigate the murder and arrest the killer. He is guided by a
British diplomat and thinks Kuhyar is the murderer. There is a
dispute between him and Namdar Khan, [Ezzatolah Entezami] who is
related to Aliyar and the chief of another clan. Just as the diplomat
wants, their argument leads to an unwanted war and the death of
Aliyar, the British diplomat the deaths of government soldiers and the
killing of Ameri.
Cast and crew: Massood Jafari Jozani, Ali Nassirian, Shaqaqi,
Ezzatolah Entezami, Valiyollah Shirandami, Ali Reza Shoja-Nuri, Hamid
Jebeli, Ahmad Hashemi, Shamsi Fazlollahi, Azita Lachini, Fahimeh
Rastegar, Sogand Rahmani, Asghar Hemmat, Ataollah Zahed, Mir Salah
Hosseini, Abbas Nozari, Behzad Rahim Khani
This is a 27" x 29" Iranian poster designed by Heddat for the 1985
Mohammad Motevaselani film Mirza Norooz's Shoes written by
Dariush Farhang and Susan Taslimi and starring Ali Nassirian as Mirza
Norooz. Plot summary: In this comedy set in premodern Iran Mirza
Norooz is a pharmacist who is unwilling to discard his old worn-out
shoes and buy new ones. This causes the people in his town to
ridicule him and makes him unfit to appear at public functions. His
wife and children are no longer able to tolerate the situation. They
have left him and made the purchase of new shoes the condition for
their return. Mirza finally decides to buy new shoes with much
bitterness. He tries to discard his old worn-out shoes, but they
cause problems for him no matter what he does with them. Things get
so bad for him that he is almost beheaded by mistake. He finally gets
relief when his old shoes are publicly burned. He then goes back to a
peaceful life with his wife and children, who have come back home.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Motevaselani, Dariush Farhang, Susan
Taslimi, Ali Nassirian, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Reza Abdi, Kazem
Afrandnia, Saeed Amir Soleymani, Zahra Boroomand, Gohar Golkar, Asghar
Khandan, Jamshid Layegh, Ezzatollah Ramazanifar, Sami Tahasuni,
Mohammad Varshochi
This is a 27" x 38.75" poster designed by Bateni for the 1986
film The Thief and the Writer written and Directed by Kazem
Ma'soumi and starring Khosro Shakibai as Rahman. Plot summary: After
his release from prison Rahman decides he will live an honorable life,
but is unable to find work because of his bad background.
Cast and crew: Kazem Ma'soumi, Ali Nassirian, Khosro Shakibai, Ahu
Kheradmand, Ali Asghar Nejat, Mehri Mehrinia, Ahmad Behroozi, Hamid
Nouri, Fazel Ma'soumi, Ahmad Abdollahi, Hushang Malek Ara, Narimani,
Nasser Etteminan, Asghar Khandan, Parviz Shokri, Neshat
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian film poster designed by Abolfazl Hemmati Ahui for the 1980 Dariush Mehrjui
film The School We Went To based on a story by Fereydoon
Doostdar and Dariush Mehrjui and starring Ali Nassirian. Plot
Summary: At the Justice on the Horizons School everything turns on
bullying and threats from the school principal. The students are
unhappy about this situation and they complain about it in the Wall
newspaper. The principal is frightened about the opening of the eyes
and ears of the students and he shuts down the Wall. The students
protest and with the cooperation of the literature teacher they
persuade the principal to agree to the remounting of the Wall
newspaper. Some people have seen the film as an allegory for the 1978
Iranian revolution while others have criticized it as propaganda
driven more by the Islamic regime than by Mehrjui.