This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi for
the 2010 Habibollah Bahmani film Salma and the Apple written by
Seyed Naser Hashemzadeh and starring Hadi Dibaji as Sadeq.
Cast and crew: Habibollah Bahmani, Behzad Khorshidi, Seyed Naser
Hashemzadeh, Hadi Dibaji, Soghol Gholatian, Jafar Dehghan, Ismail
Khalaj, Behrooz Baghayi, Davood Fathali Beigi, Mohammad Ali Soleyman
Tash, Zooya Imami, Masoud Choobin
This is a 27.25" x 37.5" Iranian poster designed by Bateni for the
1986 film Fusillade AKA Teer Baran written and directed
by Ali Asghar Shadravan and starring Majid Majidi. Plot summary: This
is the story of the life and death of anti-monarchist revolutionary
Sayed Ali Andarzgoo. In Bahman 1343 [21 January - 19 February 1964]
Mohammad Andarzgoo and several other people waited in front of the
Majles building for Hassan'ali Masour to arrive in his chauffeured
black limosine; when he arrived they assassinated him. Agents did
much investigation and finally arrested and executed all the
perpetrators with the exception of Sayed Ali Andarzgoo. SAVAK agents
kept looking for Andarzgoo because they considered him one of the main
planners of the assassination, but he eluded arrest several times,
moving with his family from one place to another. Finally SAVAK
agents found where he was living and killed him in a street shootout.
Cast and crew: Ali Asghar Shadravan, Bateni, Majid Majidi, Jafar Dehghan, Reza Cheraghi, Atta Samanian
This is a 26.75" x 40.5" Iranian poster designed by Bateni for the
1986 Rasool Mollagholi film A Boat to the Beach AKA balami
be soo-ye sahel written and directed by Rasool Mollagholi Poor and
starring Khosrow Ziaee. Plot summary: Late in the month of Mehr 1359
[23 Septmber - 22 October 1980] when the city of Khorramshahr is in
danger of falling a group of revolutionary guards commanded by Morteza
is sent from Tehran to help the city's combatants. Since the roads in
the vicinity are held by the Iraqis, they are planning to take a
helicopter from Mahshahr to Khorramshahr but they are unable to get
one so Morteza moves his battalion across the Persian Gulf in a
launch. The battalion arrives in Khorramshahr a day after it has
fallen. According to plan Morteza and two of the remaining combatants
from Khorramshahr cross the Karun River in a small boat; they prepare
the necessary intelligence for striking the Iraqis by penetrating
enemy positions and making a map of enemy fortifications in
Khorramshahr. The Iraqis become aware of their presence so they have
to go back. In a night engagement Morteza's companions are killed and
he must take them back arcoss the Karun in the same small boat.
Cast and crew: Rasool Mollagholi Poor, Khosrow Ziaee, Ataollah
Salmanian, Behzad Behzadpour, Jafar Dehghan, Freydun Kashan-Fallah,
Akbar Mansoor Fallah
This is a 26.5" x 39" Iranian poster designed by Bateni for the 1987
film Panic written and directed by Shahriar Bahrani and
starring Jafar Dehghan as Ibrahim. The story is set in the time of
the Iran-Iraq war. Plot summary: The officials at the Saudi embassy
give a briefcase containing confidential documents to enemy domestic
agents for transport across the frontier. The briefcase falls into
the hands of the police and after they break the code it becomes clear
the enemy intends to bomb a border village with chemicals. A
reconnaissance team is sent to Kordestan to find out what is
happening, but the village is bombed anyway and a large number of its
residents are killed. Enemy soldiers arrive in gas masks and clash
with the reconnaissance team. Reinforcements arrive and the enemy are
annihilated.
Cast and crew: Shahriar Bahrani, Bateni, Jafar Dehghan, Ardalan
Shoja-Kaveh, Faramarz Shahani, Seyed Ahmad Miralaie, Zohreh Zarehei,
Akbar Mansour Fallah, Attaollah Soleymanian, Farid Keshan Fallah, Ali
Yazdani, Ruhollah Baradari, Rahim Babaei, Kazem Haghighatjoo, Fairouz
Lotfian, Habibollah Rajabali, Mohsen Babaei
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Bateni to promote the
1986 Ali Asghar Shadravan film Fussilade [tirbaran] starring
Majid Majidi based on a screenplay by Ali Asghar Shadravan with
cinematography by Homayun Payvar. Plot summary: In January 1965
Mohammad Andarzgoo and a few other people wait in front of the
Parliament Building to assassinate Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansour.
The assassination is a success but all the assassins are arrested
and executed after much investigation, with the exception of
Andarzgoo. SAVAK agents are trying to catch Andarzgoo because they
consider him one of the main planners of the assassination. However
he disguises himself and continues the resistance. He is almost
arrested several times, and each time this happens he has to move with
his family to another city or village. At last the SAVAK surround his
home and he is martyred in a fierce gunfight.
Cast and crew: Ali Asghar Shadravan, Majid Majidi, Jafar Dehghan, Ataollah Salmanian, Homayun Payvar, Reza Cheraghi, Habibollah Rajabali, Mahmoud Noruz, Naser Forough, Masoud Niknam, Mohammad Ahmadi, Ebrahim Aliasgari
This is a 27" x 38.75" Iranian poster designed by H. Sureh to promote
the 2000 Shahriar Bahrani 114-minute color film Saint Mary
[maryam-e moqaddas] starring Shabnam Golikhani as Mary based on a
story by M.S. Bahmanpour with cinematography by Hassan Pooya. Plot
summary: This is a dramatization of the coming of Christ beginning
with anticipation in Herod's court, the birth of Mary and her
childhood in Jerusalem. The film has no Joseph, no trip to Bethlehem
to be taxed and no manger. Instead, after having her baby Mary appears
in the street before the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem. They accuse her of
shaming her people, but the baby Jesus in her arms speaks in her
defense and tells everyone present who he is. This has a devastating
effect on the priests, who had been talking about burning her as
punishment for dishonoring her people.
Cast and crew: Shahriar Bahrani, Parvis Pourhosseini, Mohammad Kasebi, Shabnam Golikhani, Hassan Pooya, Birtanem, Nuvit Candaner, Jafar Dehghan, Ali Ekber Diribas, Tugay Elverdi, Mehdi Faghih, Salahsun Hekimoglu, Hayri Kucukdeniz, Efsane Nasseri, Tansu Okan, Mahtap Queramant, Maryam Razavi, Zahra Saeedi, Marjan Shirmohammadi, Ahmet Tasar, Reza Tavakoli, Hossein Yari, Zehir Yari, Mohsen Zaehtab, Ulku Ulker
