Showing posts with label Bahram Beizai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bahram Beizai. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Bashu, the Little Stranger باشو غریبه کوچک Susan Taslimi 1989 Iranian film poster

Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989) - (Susan Taslimi) Iranian one-sheet

This is a 27.5" x 38.75" Iranian poster designed by Manouchehr Abdullahzadeh for the 1989 film Bashu, the Little Stranger written and directed by Bahram Bayzai and starring Susan Taslimi as Naii. Plot summary: During the Iran-Iraq war in the southern part of Iran a boy named Bashu [Adnan Afravian] loses his home and family to a bombing. He sneaks into the back of a truck and goes to sleep. When he wakes up the truck is much further north in a place where demolition is being used for road clearing. He runs away from the explosions and eventually finds himself on a farm being worked by Naii, whose husband is away. Naii gives Bashu food and water, but she finds they do not speak the same language. Naii is kind to Bashu and he tries to reciprocate by helping her. When Naii's husband [Parviz Poorhosseini] comes home he does not like having Bashu in the house. Bashu senses this and runs away; Naii finds Bashu sleeping in an outbuilding during a storm and brings him back.

Cast and crew: Bahram Beizai, Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Adnan Afravian, Bashu, Akbar Doodkar, Farokhlagha Hushmand





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Friday, November 17, 2017

Maybe Some Other Time شاید وقتی دیگر dir: Bahram Beyzai 1987 Iranian poster

Maybe Some Other Time (1987) - (dir: Bahram Bayzai) Iranian poster

This is a 26" x 19" Iranian poster for the 1987 film Maybe Some Other Time written and directed by Bahram Beizai and starring Susan Taslimi as Kian/Vida/their mother. Plot summary: Modabbar [Dariush Farhang] is a professional announcer for television films. While working on a documentary he sees his wife Kian sitting in a car with a stranger. He locates the man with the help of the director and editor of the film. His name is Homayoun Haqnegar [Ali-Reza Modjallal]. When he visits him at his shop Modabber realizes the woman he saw in the film was actually Haqnegar's wife Vida, Kian's twin sister. He takes Kian and his colleagues on a visit to Haqnegar at his home. After the shock reunion with her long-lost twin, Kian learns her father had died when she was a child, which helps her understand who she is and why her poverty-stricken mother abandoned her.

Cast and crew: Bahram Beizai, Simin Ansari, Siamak Atlassi, Dariush Farhang, Ghodrat Latifi, Jamshid Layegh, Hossein Mahjoub, Ali-Reza Modjallal, Sirous Nasiri, Abdolreza Radmanesh, Susan Taslimi





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Saturday, October 12, 2013

The Red Line (1982) - (dir: Masoud Kimiai) [خط قرمز]

The Red Line [خط قرمز khat-e qermez] (1982) - (dir: Masud Kimiai) Iranian film poster

This is an Iranian poster by an unknown designer made to promote the 1982 Masoud Kimiai film The Red Line [khat-e qermez] based on a screenplay by Bahram Beizai from his play Shab-e Samur and starring Saeed Rad as Armani. When this film was made both Kimiai and Beizai were in their 40s and had well-established careers in the Iranian film industry. Wikipedia has articles about both of them summarizing their professional activities. Plot summary: In the fall of 1978 at the peak of the revolution an agent named Armani from the National Intelligence and Security Organization (SAVAK) [Saeed Rad] marries a girl named Lale [Farimah Farjami] who knows nothing about his occupation. A series of strange events on the eve of the wedding and the absence of the SAVAK make the girl suspicious, angry and afraid and cause her to investigate; the next morning they have a heated, violent confrontation that ends when she shoots him with his pistol.

Cast and crew: Masud Kimiai, Bahram Beizai, Saeed Rad, Farimah Farjami, Kurosh Afsharpanah, Saeed Amir Soleymani, Ahmad Ghadakchian, Jamshid Hashempur, Iren, Gisu Kheradmand, Ali Mahzun, Turan Mehrzad, Saeed Pirdust, Amrollah Saberi, Ai Sabet, Khosro Shakibai, Alireza Zarrindast, Jalal, Akbar Mo'azazi, Jamshid Arya



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