Jafar Khan is Back from America جعفر خان از فرنگ برگشته Reza Arham Sadr 1985 Iranian film poster

Jafar Khan is Back from Europe (1985) - (Reza Arham Sadr) Iranian one-sheet

This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Bateni for the 1985 Ali Hatami film Jafar Khan is Back from America written by Hassan Moghadam and starring Reza Arham Sadr. Plot summary: Jafar Khan, the son of Haj Akbar, returns from America. When his father sees his unconventional appearance he realizes he will need to use fire and water to make Jafar look presentable. The father's efforts are unsuccessful because the government gives Jafar room to put his ideas into practice. Jafar becomes an agent for making Jafarabad, which has been renamed as Newjef, into an industrial city and a space where the residents can be put to work implementing Jafar's programs making his ideal society. When Haj Akbar is unable to bring Jafar in line and learns he has married a American girl, he has a heart attack and on Jafar's advice is sent an asylum instead of a hospital. However the psychologist decides to look after him at home. In his father's absence Jafar Khan implements his programs. With help from the psychologist and the hospital doctor Haj Akbar regains his health and musters opposition to Jafar. After Jafar sets the people of the village against each other, the country drops the goal of being like America.

Cast and crew: Ali Hatami, Hassan Moghadam, Reza Arham Sadr, Ezzatolah Entezami, Jahangir Forouhar, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Iraj Rad, Hosein Sarshar

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The Stone Lion شیر سنگی Ali Nassirian 1987 Iranian film poster

The Stone Lion (1987) - (Ali Nassirian) Iranian poster

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

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The Blue-Veiled روسری آبی (Ezzatolah Entezami) - (1995) Iranian one-sheet

The Blue-Veiled (1995) - (Ezzatolah Entezami) Iranian one-sheet

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.

Cast and crew: Rakhshan Bani-Etamad, Golab Adineh, Afsar Asadi, Jamshid Esmailkhani, Farhad Aslani, Ezzatolah Entezami, Nadia Golchin, Behnaz Jafari, Baran Kosari, Fatemah Motamed-Aria

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The School We Went To مدرسه ای که میرفتیم (Dariush Mehrjui) - (1980) Iranian film poster

The School We Went To (1980) - (Ali Nassirian) Iranian film poster

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.

Cast and crew: Dariush Mehrjui, Fereydoon Doostdar, Ali Nassirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Amrollah Saberi, Ghassem Seif, Mehrdad Fakhimi, Farrokh Majidi, Manuchehr Oliai, Abolfazl Hemmati Ahui

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The Maritime Silk Road [راه آبی ابریشم] (Bahram Radan) - (2011) Iranian Film Poster

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The Maritime Silk Road [راه آبی ابریشم rah-e abi-ye abrisham] (2011) - (Bahram Radan) Iranian one-sheet poster

Pictured is a 26.75" x 38.5" Iranian poster designed by Behruz Khorshidi to promote the 2011 Mohammad Bozorgnia film The Maritime Silk Road [راه آبی ابریشم] starring Bahram Radan based on a story by Mohammad Bozorgnia with cinematography by Bahram Badakhshani. Plot summary: This historical drama is about the first crossing of the Indian Ocean to China on a route which came to be called the Maritime Silk Road. Two ships undertook the voyage through the Persian Gulf from Iran, one under Captain Soleiman [Dariush Arjmand] and another under Captain Idris [Reza Kianian]. The story is based on an account of the voyage written by a passenger on Soleiman's ship named Shazan ibn Yusuf [Bahram Radan] in 11 BC.

Cast and crew: Mohammad Bozorgnia, Bahram Badakhshani, Bahram Radan, Daryiush Arjmand, Payam Dehkordi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Mohsen Hosseini, Reza Kianian, Mehdi Mayamei, Bahram Radan, Pegah Ahangarani, Penkuk Serikul, Deliang Wang

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Angel Day [روز فرشته] (Ezzatolah Entezami) - (1993) Iranian Film Poster

Angel Day [rooz-e fereshteh] (2013) - (Ezzatolah Entezami) Iranian Film Poster

Pictured is 26.25" x 38.75" Iranian poster designed by Bateni to promote the 1993 Behruz Afkhami 78-minute color film Angel Day [rooz-e fereshteh] starring Ezzatolah Entezami with cinematography by Azim Javanruh. Plot summary: Niyatollah [Ezzatolah Entezami] is a wealthy, stingy man. He gets into an argument with a colleague at a courthouse and is thrown to the pavement from a balcony on the seventh floor. His soul separates from his dying body and he meets an angel named Pari [Mina Lakani]. She tells him his body will die soon and he does not have enough time to compensate for the sins of his past. He sees the life he has lived and has regrets. The angel decapitates him, then he suddenly awakens in the courthouse from his dream. He decides to begin making amends for his past immediately.

Cast and crew: Behruz Afkhami, Behnam Diani, Akbar Abdi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Akbar Abdi, Mina Lakani, Mohamad Reza Honarmand, Esmail Davarfar, Parvis Pourhosseini, Hossein Moheb Ahari, Farahnaz Manafi Zaher

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Sadegh Korde (1972) - (Saeed Rad)

Sadegh Korde (1972) - (Saeed Rad) Iranian film poster

Shown here is a 36" x 24.5" Iranian poster designed by Beheshti to promote the 1972 110-minute Naser Taghvai black-and-white film Sadegh Korde starring Saeed Rad based on a screenplay by Naser Taghvai with cinematography by Nosratallah Kani. The film was produced by the Misaghye Studio. Plot summary: Sadegh [Saeed Rad] known as Sadegh Korde, ran a coffee house with his wife [Atash Khayyar] on the road between Andimeshk and Ahvaz. One night when Sadegh was not there a truck driver friend of his went to the coffee house and after insulting Sadegh's wife he unwittingly killed her. The chief of the guard station [Mohamad Ali Keshavarz] and Chief Sergeant Vali Khan [Ezzatolah Entezami] the father of Sadegh's wife, sought to arrest the killer, but Sadegh started slaughtering truck drivers to avenge the murder of his wife. Chief Sergeant Vali Khan was told by the chief of the guard station to investigate the case of the killer of the drivers. When he was sure the killer of the drivers was none other than his son-in-law, he was silent. The chief of the guard station pressured the chief sergeant and on the day when Sadegh was supposed to visit his child and collect 1000 tumans, to cross the water boundary he went to the home of his wife's father and was surrounded by police and shot.

Cast and crew: Naser Taghvai, Nosratalah Kani, Saeed Rad, Ezzatolah Entezami, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Atash Khayyer, Mahoucher Ahmadi, Jalal Pishvaian, Dalileh Namazi, Mir Mohammad Tajaddod, Geeti Forouhar, Kazen Roshanzamir, Ezatallah Ramezanfar, Esmail Davarfar

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