This is a 23.5" x 33.75" Iranian poster for the 1970 film Jafar and
Golnar written and directed by Manoochehr Ghassemi, based on a
story by Abolhossein Sepenta and starring Fourouzan. Plot summary:
Jafar is an agent for putting down highwaymen. While working as an
agent he meets a girl named Golnar. Through her he finds the hideout
of Qoli Khan, the chief of the highwaymen, and then eliminates them.
After that he marries the girl.
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
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
This is a 27" x 38.75" poster designed by Bateni for the 1986
film The Thief and the Writer written and Directed by Kazem
Ma'soumi and starring Khosro Shakibai as Rahman. Plot summary: After
his release from prison Rahman decides he will live an honorable life,
but is unable to find work because of his bad background.
Cast and crew: Kazem Ma'soumi, Ali Nassirian, Khosro Shakibai, Ahu
Kheradmand, Ali Asghar Nejat, Mehri Mehrinia, Ahmad Behroozi, Hamid
Nouri, Fazel Ma'soumi, Ahmad Abdollahi, Hushang Malek Ara, Narimani,
Nasser Etteminan, Asghar Khandan, Parviz Shokri, Neshat
