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
In 1920s Iran Taj ol-Moluk [Niku Kheradmand] and Kamran Mirza
[Dariush Arjmand] are the only remnants of the Rafiq al-Malek Dynasty.
They plotted to recover the family's ancestral home, which had been
inherited by Foroogh ol-Zaman after her husband, their brother Hesam
Mirza, had drowned in a river. The plot was to prove Foroogh ol-Zaman
was insane by staging a play written by Kamran Mirza. They hired an
itinerant theater group to carry out the plot as household
servants. The theater group was unaware of the brother and sister's
final intention. Foroogh ol-Zaman, who lived in a city, came to the
ancestral home for the first time and this was right where the play
began. They told her they had killed her husband. Foroogh ol-Zaman
asked the Sheriff for help and Inspector Rokni [Jamshid Hashempur] and
his agents got involved, but they did not find any evidence. Taj
ol-Moluk suggested to Inspector Rokni that Foroogh was confused. The
play continued when Rokni and his agents left, but Foroogh did not
know she was herself one of the main players. She was deceived every
time and began to be ill. As the play continued they put her in a
position where she shot someone with a pistol thinking she was
defending herself. Naturally Inspector Rokni and his colleagues got
involved again but this time Rokni had become suspicious and ordered
further investigation. The play continued. Foroogh, who realized her
life was in danger, decided to run away, but she could not get off the
premises. She gradually became truly confused. Taj ol-Moluk, who was
was the main one behind what was happening, created a situation that
was appropriate for Foroogh's removal. However the theater group
recognized her true intentions and left the house. Kamran Mirza was
enamored of Foroogh and was not willing to kill her; he took a stand
against his sister. On the other hand Rokni, who had discovered what
was going on, came to Foroogh's aid and told her everything. He also
persuaded the theater group to come back to the house and expose the
secret of the plot in the last act. At the end Taj ol-Moluk went
crazy and Foroogh donated the house for conversion to a hospital for
the poor.
This is a 19" x 26" Iranian poster for the 1987 Rasoul Sadrameli
film Paeezan written by Abolhassan Davoodi, Khosrow Dehghan,
Fereydoun Jeyrani, Farid Mostafavi and Rasoul Sadrameli and starring
Amin Tarokh as Masoud Mehrju. Plot summary: Masoud Mehrju is planning
to leave the country and abandon his wife Parvaneh Mahan [Katayoun
Riahi] and their child. Before the separation they take a trip to see
a relative. On the way they pick up a stranger [Dariush Arjmand] on
the roadside who has been injured in an accident. He forces them at
gunpoint to take him to his home in the beautiful mountain village of
Paeezan. The stranger dies before they get there, but first he says
something to Masoud that causes him to change his mind about leaving
the country. He goes back to living as before.
This is a 27" x 19" Iranian poster by an unnamed designer for the 1993
film Falling AKA Hoboot written and directed by Ahmad
Reza Mo'tamedi and starring Dariush Arjmand as Adam. Plot summary: We
see the protagonist's existential dilemma portrayed in a hallucinatory
fantasy. Adam has lost his way and is now desperately trying to find
himself again. He tries to go back to the past but cannot find it; the
devil haunts him during his search, making the earth collapse beneath
his feet. Phantoms plunder the light and water in a procession of
visions, but Adam still does not remember who he is.
Cast and crew: Ahmad Reza Mo'tamedi, Dariush Arjmand, Golchehre
Sajadieh, Gholam-Hossein Lotfi, Jahangir Almasi, Nader Rajabpoor
This is a 27.25" x 38.5" Iranian poster designed by Ebrahim Haghighi
to promote the 2012 Morteza Harandi 110-minute color film Without
Permission [bedune ejaze] starring Yasmina Baher based on a story
by Ali Hosseini with cinematography by Afshin Alizadeh. Plot summary:
Yasi [Yasmina Baher] is a happy friendly 20-year-old girl. She likes
to buy things with her father's money but he is restrictive. She is
quite cautious about her affairs until her life is disrupted one day
when she is photographed without her knowledge at a department store
and then finds herself being stalked and blackmailed.
Cast and crew: Morteza Harandi, Afshin Alizadeh, Soolmaz Aghmaghani, Dariush Arjmand, Zohre Hamidi, Mohammad Kasebi, Nasrin Moghanloo, Mahdi Pakdel, Amir Yal Arjmand, Yasmina Baher, Hamid Taleghani, Baran Zamani, Sanaz Kamalvand, Faraj Golsefidi
