This is an 18.75" x 26.5" Iranian poster for the 2002 Dariush Farhang
film Yellow Rose written by Ali Khodsiani and starring Amin
Hayayee as Arash. Plot summary: Davud [Bahram Radan] and Layli
[Marjan Mohtasham] went north on their wedding night. On the way they
met Mahshid [Hadis Folavand] and Arash [Amin Hayayee] and they
traveled together. They had an accident which killed a black man;
Arash and Davud threw the body into a swamp. After that Davud decided
to go back, but Arash was against this. The two fought about it, but
Davud did not defend himself. Layli saw this as a sign Davud was a
coward and decided to leave him. To prevent this Davud told her about
an incident in his life and the reason for his fear. His mother and
father had had an argument in a boat and he had unwittingly thrown his
father into the river, which killed him; then his mother also left
him. Layli stuck by her decision to leave him.
Cast and crew: Dariush Farhang, Reza Banki, Ali Khodsiani, Amin
Hayayee, Bahram Radan, Marjan Mohtasham, Hadis Foladvand
This is a 27" x 38.75" Iranian poster designed by Mahallati for the
1987 film The Spell written and directed by Dariush Farhang and
starring Jamshid Mashayekhi as Shazdeh. Plot summary: After the
wedding the bride, [Sogand Rahmani] the groom [Atila Pesiani] and
their relatives set out for the village where they will be living. A
severe storm comes, the bride and groom lose the way and take refuge
in a mansion. Shazdeh and his steward [Parviz Poorhosseini] decide to
spend two nights there. Five years earlier Shazdeh's wife [Susan
Taslimi] got lost there when she went into a hall of mirrors. In an
abandoned basement the bride meets Shazdeh's wife who says she has
been imprisoned in a black pit since the wedding night. Shazdeh and
the son-in-law doubt the steward and when they go from the hall of
mirrors to the black pit they pursue him. In the ensuing struggle the
steward is killed by Shazdeh's wife. The bride and groom leave the
mansion and after years of separation Shazdeh and his wife sit and
talk. The wife knocks over a candlestick and the mansion is consumed
by fire.
Cast and crew: Dariush Farhang, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Atila Pesiani,
Parviz Poorhosseini, Sogand Rahmani, Susan Taslimi
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 38.5" Iranian poster for the 1986 Yadollah Samadi
film The Bus written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi and Dariush Farhang
and starring Hadi Eslami as Ne'mat. Plot summary: The people in a
village have been divided into upper and lower groups (Heydari and
Ne'mati). The leader of the Ne'matis sells his salt mine to the
village head man, who exacerbates the rancor between the two groups,
and buys a used bus for use transporting passengers. The arrival of
the bus in the village undercuts the passenger transport business for
the Heydaris and intensifies the conflicts. Meanwhile the village
head man encourages the leader of the Heydaries to sell him his mill
and then buy the bus. The tensions keep escalating. Intermediaries
and advice from the village teacher and its elder are of no value.
The lack of passengers and the poor business cause Ne'mat Khan to fall
behind on his payments and when the sellers of the used bus come to
the village to repossess it Ne'mat Khan goes after the village head
man with a club and demands the return of his salt mine. Heydar Khan
and the people of the village also stand before the village head man
in support of Ne'mat. The village head man returns the salt mine and
the mill. The old hostility becomes friendship when Ne'mat's daughter
marries Heydar's son.
Cast and crew: Yadollah Samadi, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Dariush
Farhang, Hadi Eslami, Hamid Taati, Morteza Ahmadi, Saeed Abbasi,
Ghlamreza Azizi, Khosro Dastgir, Mahnaz Eslami, Mehri Mehrinia,
Hossein Memarzade, Mohammad Reza Morseli, Mohammad Poursattar, yoosef
Samad Zadeh, Asghar Zamani
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.
This is a 26.75" x 38.25" Iranian poster designed to promote the 2000
Dariush Farhang film Leaning on the Wind [tekye bar bad]
starring Amin Hayayee based on a story by Fereydoun Farhudi with
cinematography by Reza Banki. Plot summary: Sina [Amin Hayayee], a
youth from southern Iran, goes to Tehran to look for a good job. He
promises his fiance Leila [Leia Zanganeh] that after he succeeds with
his job he will return to Khorramshahr, the city where he was born.
In Tehran Sina gets a job working in a factory for a wealthy man named
Farjami [Davoud Rashidi] and is soon noticed because of his honesty
and hard work. Farjami's daughter Marjan [Marila Zare'i], who does
not know about Sina's fiance, gradually becomes enamored of him. In
his letters to Leila Sina says he is happy with his job but he does
not give a date for his return. Leila comes to Tehran unexpectedly
and Sina, who has not told anyone in Tehran about his fiance, takes
her to an inn. Leila tells him she is three months pregnant with his
child and they must marry as soon as possible. Sina thinks he needs
more time before marrying her so he takes her to an illegal abortion
clinic, but he runs away with her when the police arrive to bust the
clinic. Sina has made tentative plans to marry Marjan and goes north
with her and her family, but he tells Leila he is going north because
of his job. Sina's lie is quickly exposed; Leila follows him north
and calls him at the home of his employer during his engagement
celebration. Sina leaves the party in distress and takes Leila out on
a rowboat, where they get into an argument. Leila suddenly falls into
the water. Sina jumps in after her but does not find her. Shortly
thereafter Sina is tried for murder and given the death penalty, but
Leila's mother and Marjan are sure he is innocent.
There are strong similarities between this story and the one in the 1951 George Stevens film A Place in the Sun (thanks to Freddie Daniel).
