This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi for
the 2014 Hossein Farahbakhsh film Mastane written by Asghar
Naimi and starring Sahar Dolatshahi as Mastane. Plot summary: Mastane
is a nationally famous actress who is sexually assaulted and then
punished by the legal system when she tries to get justice.
Cast and crew: Hossein Farahbakhsh, Behzad Khorshidi, Asghar Naimi,
Farhad Aslani, Sahar Dolatshahi, Milad Keymaram, Baran Kosari,
Mohammad Motevaselani, Anooshirvan Naeemi, Atila Pesiani, Azita
Torkashvand
This is a 27" x 39" Iranian poster by an unnamed designer for the 1995
film The Blue-Veiled AKA The Blue Scarf written and
directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and starring Ezzatolah Entezami as
Rasul Rahmani. Plot summary: Rasul Rahmani is an old man with a
tomato farm and a sauce factory, but his wife has died and he is
lonely. When he falls in love with Nobar, [Fatemah Motamed-Aria] one
of the workers in his factory, he encounters friction in his family
because they do not approve of his relationship with this poor woman.
This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Iranian poster designed by Sheyban Khaghani to
promote the 2012 Fereydoun Jeyrani 97-minute color film I Am a
Mother [man madar hastam] starring Baran Kosari based on a story
by Fereydoun Jeyrani with cinematography by Morteza Ghofari. Plot
summary: The lives of two prosperous families are falling apart.
Things happen in the life of a 19-year-old girl named Ava in one of
the families [Baran Kosari] that expose many secrets in the lives of
the people in the story.
Poster warning in top left corner: The topic of this film is social
pathology; it is not recommended for people under the age of 16.
As the film begins this quote appears in white letters against a
black background: "All happy families are all alike; each unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Chapter 1.
Some conservative religious groups in Iran including the Ansar-e
Hezbollah protested the screening of this film and demanded the
revocation of its exhibition license. The film was edited to
accomodate these protests.
