This is a 26.75" x 38.25" Iranian poster made to promote the 2011
89-minute Mehdi Rahmani color film Hidden [penhan] based on a
story by Mehdi Rahmani and Mehdi Shirazi with cinematography by Turaj
Mansuri. Plot summary: Yalda is an adolescent girl who lives with her
father Esfandiar, a successful architect. Her mother Nazanin left her
some time ago and went to France, and Yelda feels lonely. She is
friends with a girl named Rayhaneh and a boy named Ruzbeh; all of them
have problems.
Cast and crew: Mehdi Rahmani, Mehdi Shirazi, Turaj Mansuri, Fataneh Malekmohamadi, Fariborz Arabnia, Ana Ne'mati, Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Azadeh Shams, Anahita Afshar, Roya Javidnia
This is a 26.75" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Mohammad Hossein
Houshmandi to promote the 2014 90-minute Ebrahim Hatamikia
film Che starring Fariborz Arabnia based on a screenplay by
Ebrahim Hatamikia with cinematography by Hossein Jafarian. Plot
summary: This film covers a two-day period in August 1979 when
Dr. Mostafa Chamran was sent to the city of Paveh in northwest Iran by the interim
government to put an end to the internal clashes that had erupted
there between the people of Paveh, the separatist Kurds and the
revolutionary guard combatants. Chamran went as a peacemaker but he
had to go against Ali Asghar Vesali [Babak Hamidian], the
revolutionary guard commander at Paveh who wanted justice, and he also
had to convince Dr. Enayati [Mehdi Soltani], the leader of the
rebellious Kurds, to back off from the fighting. Vesali, a passionate
and revolutionary youth, saw Chamran's peacemaking and desire to stop
the clashes as reactionary and constantly struggled with him.
Brigadier General Fallahi, [Saeed Rad] the commander of the Army
ground force, also had a different view of the war and tried to manage
the situation in the way he thought appropriate. Chamran made every
effort to encourage the various intellectual and ideological groups to
unite and behave rationally, but contrary to his expectations Enayati,
who was also his old comrade, did not accept his call for peace, nor
were Vesali and his comrades-in-arms willing to stop fighting.
Chamran thus went through two difficult, intolerable days while the
competing forces were taking over the city. Finally by direct order
from Imam Khomeini on 18 August armed forces with artillery, tanks,
fighter jets and helicopters were quickly dispatched to the site from
the capital and the fighting was stopped the next day. This order from
Khomeini took the unusual form of a fatwa; the siege of the city
and the extensive killings of Kurds that followed, though not covered
in the film, are remembered with great bitterness today by Iran's
Kurds.
Cast and crew: Ebrahim Hatamikia, Fariborz Arabnia, Saeed Rad, Merila Zare'i, Babak Hamidian, Mehdi Soltani, Esmail Soltanian, Amir Reza Delavari, Khosrow Shahraz, Payam Larian, Hussein Jafarian
