This is a 26.75" x 39" Iranian poster designed by Bateni for the 1989
film Courtship aka khastegari written and directed by
Mehdi Fakhimzadeh and starring Hadi Eslami as Javad Jalali. Plot
summary: With encouragement by friends, an old man named Javad Jalali
[Hadi Eslami] with several children and grandchildren decides 30 years
after the death of his wife to marry again. He meets a woman his age
and they get engaged despite opposition from their children and
acquaintances.
Cast and crew: Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Hadi Eslami, Soraya Ghasemi,
Esmaeel Mehrabi, Soraya Hekmat, Mostafa Tari, Manijeh Aghai, Majid
Mirzaian, Mohammad Abhari, Nasser Gitijah, Ali Barjaste, Mina Fathi,
Maryam Hazhirvand, Abbas Nazeri, Amir Vatanzad, Isa Safayi
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
