This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Hamid Reza Eshaqi for
the 2014 film Everything for Sale written and directed by Amir
Hossein Saghafi and starring Saber Abar. Plot summary: When a young
man is injured in a soccer stadium his older brother risks everything
to try to get money for an operation.
This is a 26.75" x 38.25" Iranian poster designed to promote the 2000
Dariush Farhang film Leaning on the Wind [tekye bar bad]
starring Amin Hayayee based on a story by Fereydoun Farhudi with
cinematography by Reza Banki. Plot summary: Sina [Amin Hayayee], a
youth from southern Iran, goes to Tehran to look for a good job. He
promises his fiance Leila [Leia Zanganeh] that after he succeeds with
his job he will return to Khorramshahr, the city where he was born.
In Tehran Sina gets a job working in a factory for a wealthy man named
Farjami [Davoud Rashidi] and is soon noticed because of his honesty
and hard work. Farjami's daughter Marjan [Marila Zare'i], who does
not know about Sina's fiance, gradually becomes enamored of him. In
his letters to Leila Sina says he is happy with his job but he does
not give a date for his return. Leila comes to Tehran unexpectedly
and Sina, who has not told anyone in Tehran about his fiance, takes
her to an inn. Leila tells him she is three months pregnant with his
child and they must marry as soon as possible. Sina thinks he needs
more time before marrying her so he takes her to an illegal abortion
clinic, but he runs away with her when the police arrive to bust the
clinic. Sina has made tentative plans to marry Marjan and goes north
with her and her family, but he tells Leila he is going north because
of his job. Sina's lie is quickly exposed; Leila follows him north
and calls him at the home of his employer during his engagement
celebration. Sina leaves the party in distress and takes Leila out on
a rowboat, where they get into an argument. Leila suddenly falls into
the water. Sina jumps in after her but does not find her. Shortly
thereafter Sina is tried for murder and given the death penalty, but
Leila's mother and Marjan are sure he is innocent.
There are strong similarities between this story and the one in the 1951 George Stevens film A Place in the Sun (thanks to Freddie Daniel).
This is a 26.75" x 38.25" Iranian poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi
to promote the 2013 Pouran Derakhshandeh 100-minute color
film Hush! Girls Don't Scream starring Tanza Tabatabayi based
on a screenplay by Mitra Bahrami and Pouran Derakhshandeh with
cinematography by Morteza Poursamedi. Plot summary: The title says
"girls don't scream," and this suspense thriller, written by women and
directed by a woman, shows why they don't and why they should in Iran.
The vehicle for this message is the story of Shirin [Tanza
Tabatabayi], a woman who commits murder and is sentenced to death as
restitution (qasas) even though she might have been exonerated
if the tools and information for a proper defense had been available.
Cast and crew: Pouran Derakhshandeh, Tannaz Tabatabayi, Merila Zare'i, Babak Hamidian, Shahab Hosseini, Nima Safei, Farhad Aeesh, Amir Aghaee, Shirin Bina, Jamshid Hasshempur, Hadi Marzban, Arash Mohajer, Maedeh Tahmasebi, Morteza Poursamadi, Mitra Bahrami
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
