This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Ali Bagheri for the
2015 film I Am Diego Maradona written and directed by Bahram
Tavakoli and starring Saeed Aghakhani as Farhad. Plot summary: The
film tells the story in comedic style of a feud between two sisters
and their families. At the 2015 Fajr Film Festival in Tehran the film
won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Director, Best Film (producer Javad
Noroozbeigi), Best Actress (Golab Adineh) and Best Supporting Actress
(Pantea Panahiha).
Cast and crew: Ali Bagheri, Bahram Tavakoli, Golab Adineh, Saeed
Aghakhani, Jamshid Hashempur, Babak Hamidian, Saber Abar, Houman
Seyyedi, Vishka Asayesh, Pantea Panahiha, Mahsa Alafar, Sara Bahrami
In 1920s Iran Taj ol-Moluk [Niku Kheradmand] and Kamran Mirza
[Dariush Arjmand] are the only remnants of the Rafiq al-Malek Dynasty.
They plotted to recover the family's ancestral home, which had been
inherited by Foroogh ol-Zaman after her husband, their brother Hesam
Mirza, had drowned in a river. The plot was to prove Foroogh ol-Zaman
was insane by staging a play written by Kamran Mirza. They hired an
itinerant theater group to carry out the plot as household
servants. The theater group was unaware of the brother and sister's
final intention. Foroogh ol-Zaman, who lived in a city, came to the
ancestral home for the first time and this was right where the play
began. They told her they had killed her husband. Foroogh ol-Zaman
asked the Sheriff for help and Inspector Rokni [Jamshid Hashempur] and
his agents got involved, but they did not find any evidence. Taj
ol-Moluk suggested to Inspector Rokni that Foroogh was confused. The
play continued when Rokni and his agents left, but Foroogh did not
know she was herself one of the main players. She was deceived every
time and began to be ill. As the play continued they put her in a
position where she shot someone with a pistol thinking she was
defending herself. Naturally Inspector Rokni and his colleagues got
involved again but this time Rokni had become suspicious and ordered
further investigation. The play continued. Foroogh, who realized her
life was in danger, decided to run away, but she could not get off the
premises. She gradually became truly confused. Taj ol-Moluk, who was
was the main one behind what was happening, created a situation that
was appropriate for Foroogh's removal. However the theater group
recognized her true intentions and left the house. Kamran Mirza was
enamored of Foroogh and was not willing to kill her; he took a stand
against his sister. On the other hand Rokni, who had discovered what
was going on, came to Foroogh's aid and told her everything. He also
persuaded the theater group to come back to the house and expose the
secret of the plot in the last act. At the end Taj ol-Moluk went
crazy and Foroogh donated the house for conversion to a hospital for
the poor.
This is a 27.5" x 39" Iranian poster for the 1990 Mohamad Reza Aalami
film Love and Death written by Mohamad Reza Aalami and Tahmineh
Milani and starring Jamshid Hashempur as Dr. Manoochehr Matin. Plot
summary: In the years before the revolution Dr. Matin was initially a
combatant students, but due to plotting by his father-in-law, who was
one of the heads of SAVAK, he betrayed his fellow combatants and
thereby became prosperous. His wife and her family went abroad after
the revolution. To compensate for the past Matin gave all his assets
to a hospital while he worked full time at another government
hospital. One of his assistants named Afsaneh Parsi, [Sorayya
Golmohammadi] who was also a nurse, fell in love with him. The
nurse's fiancee Afshin Rahgozar [Changiz Vossoughi] saw this
relationship as a betrayal. After numerous clashes between Afshin
and Matin, one day the hospital was bombed by the Iraqis and Afsaneh
was seriously injured. Dr. Matin tried to save her but could not do
so. When Afshin saw Matin's human relationship with Afsaneh he saw his
own mistake. Then Afsaneh's vital signs miraculously returned!
Cast and crew: Mohamad Reza Aalami, Tahmineh Milani, Sorayya
Golmohammadi, Jamshid Hashempur, Mahaya Petrossian, Changiz Vossoughi,
Maryam Hooshidari, Abbas Jahanbakhsh, Amir Hossein Khanshahri, Fahimeh
Rastegar, Gholamreza Tabatabai
This is a 13.5" x 19.5" Iranian poster designed by Bateni for the
1989 Kianush Ayari film The Grand Day written by Farid
Mostafavi and Kianush Ayari and starring Ali Reza Khamseh as Gol Aqa.
Plot summary: In the years before the Iranian revolution, after
winning the Asian Gold Medal a bicycling champion named Gol Aqa [Ali
Reza Khamseh] received an enthusiastic welcome from his compatriots
when he returned to his birthplace in the City of Semnan. The
government officials in his town immediately ordered that he attend a
meeting about welcoming the shah's sister Ashraf Pahlavi on her
arrival in the city. The district governor [Ali Nassirian] and the
military and security officials asked Gol Aqa to use his popularity to
persuade the people to make the carpets in their homes available to
the district governor for carpeting the welcome route. Gol Aga did
not agree to this but after his fiancee's brother, who was a city
journalist, was abducted to provoke him, he asked the district
governor and the military officials to respond and invite the people
to participate. Gol Aqa's father Os Khaled [Valiyollah Shirandami]
was opposed to participation by his son and the people of the town in
the welcome proceedings. This was why the royal family's welcome to
the city was on the same day as the wedding. The people attended the
grand celebration of Gol Aqa's wedding, but the only city residents
present at the welcome proceedings were the district governor and the
city officials.
Cast and crew: Kianush Ayari, Farid Mostafavi, Ahmad Alinejad,
Saeed Amir Soleymani, Jamshid Hashempur, Ali Reza Khamseh, Gohar
Keirandish, Mehri Mehrinia, Roohola Mofidi, Rooh-angiz Mohtada, Mohsen
Mokari, Ali Nassiarian, Hassan Rezai, Valiyollah Shirandami, Iraj
Tahmasb
The Red Line [خط قرمز khat-e qermez] (1982) - (dir: Masud Kimiai) Iranian film poster
This is an Iranian poster by an unknown designer made to promote the
1982 Masoud Kimiai film The Red Line [khat-e qermez] based on a
screenplay by Bahram Beizai from his play Shab-e Samur and
starring Saeed Rad as Armani. When this film was made both Kimiai and
Beizai were in their 40s and had well-established careers in the
Iranian film industry. Wikipedia has articles about both of them
summarizing their professional activities. Plot summary: In the fall
of 1978 at the peak of the revolution an agent named Armani from the
National Intelligence and Security Organization (SAVAK) [Saeed Rad]
marries a girl named Lale [Farimah Farjami] who knows nothing about
his occupation. A series of strange events on the eve of the wedding
and the absence of the SAVAK make the girl suspicious, angry and
afraid and cause her to investigate; the next morning they have a
heated, violent confrontation that ends when she shoots him with his
pistol.
Cast and crew: Masud Kimiai, Bahram Beizai, Saeed Rad, Farimah Farjami, Kurosh Afsharpanah, Saeed Amir Soleymani, Ahmad Ghadakchian, Jamshid Hashempur, Iren, Gisu Kheradmand, Ali Mahzun, Turan Mehrzad, Saeed Pirdust, Amrollah Saberi, Ai Sabet, Khosro Shakibai, Alireza Zarrindast, Jalal, Akbar Mo'azazi, Jamshid Arya
