This is a 23.5" x 35" Iranian poster for the 1970 Saber Rahbar
film A Man from the South of the City written by Saeed Motalebi
and starring Fardin as Hadi. Plot summary: Ehtesham has rented his
cabaret to Atash [Fourouzan] but now he wants it back. He thinks his
nephew Hamid, a lawyer, might be able to recover it, but Hamid falls
in love with Atash. Meanwhile Atash has fallen in love with Hadi.
Cast and crew: Saber Rahbar, Saeed Motalebi, Mohammad Ali Fardin,
Fourouzan, Taghi Zohuri, Ali Miri, Marina Mater, Marootian, Jahangir
Forouhar, Reza Abdi, Mohammad Reza Rafi'i, Ali Dehghan, Anita Amiri,
Parviz Monfared, Hossein Shahab, Reza Safayipoor, Abdollah Butimar
The poster shown here is a 26.5" x 16.5" Iranian poster by an
unknown designer made to promote the 1968 Esmaeil Riyahi 110-minute
black-and-white film Gypsy Fury [khashm-e kuli] starring Fardin
based on a screenplay by Esmaeil Riyahi with cinematography by Iraj
Sadeghpour. The film was produced by Sina Films. Plot summary: The
actions of the wife of a jealous father estranged his son. The
gypsies took the son and years later when he grew up he unknowingly
fell in love with his cousin; however he encountered opposition from
his father. The father finally realized the truth, the wife of the
jealous father was punished and the girl and the boy married.
Cast and crew: Esmaeil Riyahi, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Iraj Sadeghpour, Pouri Baneai, Homayoun, Habibollah Boloor, Lili, Shahla Riahi, Ali Azad, Jamileh, Yadi, Akbar Jannati Shirazi
Shown here is an Iranian poster designed by Davvalu to promote the
1964 Reza Safai 84-minute black-and-white film Hell under My
Foot starring Fardin based on a screenplay by Reza Safai with
cinematography by Reza Anjamruz. The film was produced by the 555
Cinema Organization. Plot summary: The two brothers Yarqoli and
Yazdahqoli Hassanabadi lose their family in an earthquake. Yarqoli
sends his brother to the city to become a physician. Master Rostam's
eyes are on Reyhaneh, Yarqoli's fiance. The master persuades the
chief of the guard station to force Yarqoli to sell his garden and pay
him back for paying for his brother's education. Yarqoli blinds the
master with a ballpoint pen and is sentenced to a prison term. A girl
named Mehri Shayesteh injures Yazdanqoli with her automobile and
visits Yazdanqoli with her father, who is a high-ranking army
officer. The girl's father suggests to Yazdanqoli that he go into
military service and he accepts. After his release from prison Yarqoli
becomes a rebel and goes on a killing and plunder rampage in the
village with several other people. Yazdanqoli and some other military
people are charged with putting down the rebellion, and he asks his
brother Yarqoli to surrender. Master Rostam kidnaps Marjaneh,
Yarqoli's fiance and accuses Yarqoli of the kidnapping. With the help
of the master's superintendent Sohrab, Yarqoli saves Marjaneh and
surrenders. At the advice of Reyhaneh, Yarqoli's people attack the
guard station but Yarqoli is not willing to flee until Reyhaneh
receives a bullet wound from one of Reyhaneh's people and asks Yarqoli
to take her to a safe place. Reyhaneh dies, Yarqoli shoots down Master
Rostam and he himself is shot to death by Yarqoli.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Reza Safai, Reza Fazeli, Mansour Sepehrnia, Soheila, Fariba Khatami, Akbar Khajavi, Akbar Jannati Shirazi, Akbar Hashemi, Ali Bagherian, Hassan Fazeli, Hassan Shahin
Pictured is a 27.5" x 19.5" inch Iranian poster designed by Davallu to
promote the 1964 124-minute Saber Rahbar black-and-white
film Village Songs [taraneh'ha-ye rustai] starring Fardin based
on a screenplay by Azizolah Bahadore with cinematography by Saber
Rahbar. The film was produced by Film Caravan. Plot summary: The
privileged village master obtained his daily needs with the help of
his superintendent by getting direct tributes paid to him by the
villagers. He encouraged his daughter Monira to propose a friendship
with Farrokh. Farrokh damaged Monira's reputation by giving her a
sedative, then fled to the city. When the girl became pregnant she
told her mother about it and went to the city with the
superintendent. With lamentations she pleaded with Farrokh to save her
reputation, but Farrokh drove the girl away. Monira was planning to kill
herself, but Morad saved her. Morad, who lived with his sister Narges
and his aunt Kolsum, told Monira he was interested in her. Monira went
to Europe with her mother so she could have her child without the
people in the village seeing it it. Monira and her mother returned
from Europe with a small child and Farzan, the master's nephew.
Farzan told Monira he was interested in her but she shunned him. The
master died of a heart attack and after Monira revealed she had a
baby, she married Morad.
Cast and crew:Saber Rahbar, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Faridah Nassiri, Taghi Zohuri, Azizolah Bahadori, Shahin
Pictured is a 27.5" x 13.5" Iranian locandina-style promotional poster
printed in Rome Italy by Veccioni and Guadagno to promote the 1961
Samouel Khachikian 105-minute black-and-white film Midnight
Terror starring Fardin based on a screenplay by Samouel
Khachikina with cinematography by Enayatallah Famin. The film was
produced by the Misaghyeh Studio. Plot summary: Amir needed money so
he could marry his fiance Mariam, so he worked in a criminal
organization run by a man named Afshar, who printed counterfeit
currency notes. The wife of the gangleader flirted with Amir but he
paid no attention to her until the time when the gangleader saw his
wife and Amir alone together. There was a fight and the gangleader
and his wife shot and killed each other. Amir went back to Mariam.
Cast and crew: Samouel Khachikian, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Arman, Parvn Ghaffari, Vida Ghahremani, Nasser Kurechian, Toros Pestmaichian, Akbar Khajavi, Asghar Tafakori, Mansour Sepehrnia, Garshasb Raoufi, Mohammad Motevaselani
Midnight Terror [faryade nimeshab] (1961) - (Fardin) Iranian 26.5" x 18.5" busta-style film poster
Midnight Terror [faryade nimeshab] (1961) - (Fardin) Iranian 26.5" x 18.5" busta-style film poster
Midnight Terror [faryade nimeshab] (1961) - (Fardin) Iranian 26.5" x 18.5" busta-style film poster
Midnight Terror [faryade nimeshab] (1961) - (Fardin) Iranian 26.5" x 18.5" busta-style film poster
Midnight Terror [faryade nimeshab] (1961) - (Fardin) Iranian 26.5" x 18.5" busta-style film poster
The Riverbed [masir-e rudkhaneh] (1964) - (Fardin) Iranian film poster
Pictured is a 27.5" x 13" Iranian poster by an unknown designer made
to promote the 1964 Saber Rahbar film The Riverbed [masir-e
rudkhaneh] starring Fardin based on a screenplay by Saber Rahbar with
cinematography by Saber Rahbar. The film was produced by the Caravan
Film Studio. Plot summary: During an incident an unemployed youth
saved the life of the son of a village head man and meets his sister.
The boy and the girl fall in love quickly. During his stay there the
youth helps the girl's family but he finally leaves after the
condition of the head man's son improves. However the head man sends
his daughter to get the young man she loves and in this way the two
lovers begin a life together.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Saber Rahbar, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Reza Fazeli, Rafi Halati, Faridah Nasiri, Mehdi Reisfirooz, Javad Taghadosi, Mohsen Arasteh, Akbar Khajavi
Amir Arslan Namdar [امیر ارسلان نامدار] (1966) - (Fardin) Iranian film poster
This 27.5" x 13" Iranian poster was designed by Davvalu to promote the
1966 115-minute Esmail Kushan color film Amir Arsalan-e Namdar [امیر ارسلان نامدار]
starring Fardin based on a screenplay by Esmail Kushan with
cinematography by Mahmoud Kushan. The film was produced by the Pars
Film Studio. Plot summary: The screenplay is a musical developed from
a popular Persian legend that was first written as an epic poem by the
royal storyteller in the court of the 19th Century Iranian monarch
Nasser al-Din Shah. The tale is ostensibly set in the Third Century
during the Sasanian Dynasty, but it includes asynchronous references
to Islam in the lines of some of the characters. It is a mythical
account of the adventures of Prince Arsalan, heir to the throne of
Constantinople, who was born in Egypt because his mother had been
driven there by a European invasion. This particular movie adaptation
is a colorful production with bizarre demons, giants, dwarves,
sprites, fairies, dragons, conversations with animals, magical spells
and other mythical trappings. In his quest to recover his rightful
throne Prince Arsalan travels far and fights many battles, but of course he
always wins!
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Esmail Kushan, Mahmoud Kushan, Farzaneh, Manuchehr Nozari, Hosein Mohseni, Jamshid Mehrdad, Hossein Amirfazli, Parisa, Ebrahim Kushan, Mohammad Kahenemout, Mohammad Taghi Kohanmui, Saber Atashin, Koorosh Kushan, Mashinchian, Reza Arefan, Ali Azarodi
This is a 27.5" x 14" Iranian poster designed by davallu to promote
the 1967 108-minute Syamak Yasami black-and-white film Noah's
Flood [طوفان نوح tufan-e nuh] starring Fardin based on a screenplay by
Ibrahim Zamani-Ashtiani with cinematography by Ahmad Shirazi. The
film was produced by Purya Film. Plot summary: Noah [Taghi Zohuri]
was trying to save his lost son Ahmad [Nasser Malekmotei], a diamond
smuggler. Noah went with his younger son Mahmoud [Fardin] and niece
Parvin [Nilufar] to the border so his younger brother could present
himself instead of an unknown person as a party to a smuggling
transaction. Noah, who was also a man of God, asked the creator to
stop his son from deviating. At the last minute Noah's older son
changed his ways and saved his younger brother, who was in danger.
Noah thus recovered both of his good sons once again.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Syamak Yasami, Ebrahim Zamani-Ashtiani, Ahmad Shirazi, Nasser Malekmotei, Taghi Zohuri, Nilufar, Ali Zandi, Marina Metr, Rafi Halati
Bird of Happiness [homa-ye sa'adat] (1971) - (Fardin) Iranian film poster
This is a 23.5" x 35.25" Iranian poster made to promote the 1971 Tapi
Chanakya Iran-India colloboration film Bird of Happines starring Fardin based on a
screenplay by Saeed Motalebi with cinematograpy by Mehdi Amir
Qasemkhani. The film was produced by Ariana film. Plot summary: Aram
fills in love with a girl of Indian extraction named Shirin. Because
he knows her mother still adheres to old-time family mores, he
pretends he is his brother Nasser and introduces Shirin as the daugher
of a maharaja. In Aram's absence the truth is revealed and with
various measures the mother finally gets Shirin out of Aram's
life. Thinking Shirin has broken off with him, Aram submits to his
mother's demand that he marry Nazanin. Nazanin, who is an uninhibited
and permissive woman, quickly makes Aram indifferent towards her, but
by this time she has already had a child (Ramin). At school Ramin
becomes friends with Shirin's son Reza. Aram's brother Nasser, who
has mainatained an awareness of Shirin's circumstances from a
distance, learns the truth and informs Aram. Nazanin comes to herself
and tries in various ways to maintain her life, but she does not succeed and at
the height of unhappiness she is killed in an automobile accident.
After that Shirin and Aram begin life together again.
Cast and crew: Tapi Chanakya, Saeed Motalebi, Mehdi Amir Qasemkhani, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Waheeda Rehman, Aryan, Sanjeev Kumar, Simin Ghaffari, Mohammad Tajadod, Mohammad Taghi Kohanmui, Seyyed Ali Miri, Mohammad Reza Rafi'i, Peyman
Night Story [qeseh-ye shab] (1973) - (Fardin) Iranian film poster
This is a 23.5" x 35.25" Iranian film poster designed by Luzani to
promote the 119-minute 1973 Mohammad Ali Fardin black-and-white
film Night Story [qeseh-ye shab] starring Fardin based on a
screenplay by Mohammad Ali Fardin with cinematography by Mehdi Amir
Qasemkhani. The film was produced by Fardin Films and distributed by
Panorama. Plot summary: A young man thinks a friend's girlfriend is being
untrue so he makes his friend aware of it. After
this frustration and humiliation his friend despairs and takes refuge
in drinking. Then the fellow accidentally learns he was mistaken about
his friend's girl and that she had been true to him, so he takes steps
to lead back to her; after a period of separation the two
lovers are reunited.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Reza Beyk Imanverdi, Seyyed Ali Miri, Malusak, Mohammad Taghi Kohanmui, Vahan Aghamalian, Simin Alizadeh, Nadereh Abd, Reza Abdi, Luzani
World Full of Hope [donya-ye por omid] (1969) - (Fardin) Iranian film poster
This is a 27.5" x 19.5" Iranian poster by an unknown designer made to
promote the 1969 130-minute black-and-white Ahmad Shirazi
film World Full of Hope [donya-ye por omid] based on a
screenplay by Saeed Motalebi with cinematography by Ahmad Shirazi. The
film was produced by the Mehregan Film Studio and distributed by
Fardin Film. Plot summary: A child becomes separated from his father
and lives alone and without hope. As a teenager he meets a girl who
like him has lost her father as a child. The two begin a great search
to find the father and they succeed after a series of adventures.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Ahmad Shirazi, Taghi Zohuri, Shahla, Marjan, Hooshang Beheshti, Hosein Amirfazli, Reza Abdi, Haleh, Ahmad Ghadakchian, Seyyed Ali Miri, Lili, Dariush Talayi, Saeed Motalebi
Pictured is a 19.5" x 27.5" Iranian poster designed by Davvalu for
the 1962 Mohammad Ali Fardin 97-minute black-and-white film The
Hungry Wolves [gorgha-ye gorosneh] based on a screenplay by Nesame
Fatemi with cinematography by Ahmad Shirazi. The film was produced by
the Iran Film Studio. Plot summary: A group of heroin smugglers was
willing to commit any crime to achieve its objectives. A newspaper
journalist and his photographer got involved in one of their crimes
and brought about their arrest with persistence and courage.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Nesame Fatemi, Jalal Pishvaian, Pooran, Mohsen Milani, Homayoun, Jalal, Azita
This is a 20" x 29.25" Iranian poster designed by Ojaqian to promote the 1966
142-minute Ismail Riyahi black-and white film World Champion
[jahan pahlavan] with screenplay by Ismail Riyahi and cinematography
by Mehdi Amir Qasemkhani, starring Mohammad Ali Fardin. The film was
produced by Sina Film. Plot summary: A child becomes separated from
his parents. Years later when he has become a young man, in an
accident he meets a girl from a rich family. The girl has a trickster
as a fiance who has plans to steal from her family. After a series of
operations the young man exposes the essence of the trickster fiance,
and then through her mother she realizes he is from a noble family.
After that he marries the girl he loves.
Cast and crew: Mohammad Ali Fardin, Taghi Zohuri, Ismail Riyahi, Mehdi Amir Qasemkhani, Shahla, Ali Azad, Parisa, Hooshang Beheshti, Sina, Hassan Shahin
The Humans [ensanha] (1964) - (Fardin) Iranian film poster
This is a 19.5" x 27.5" Iranian poster designed by Davvalu made to
promote the 1964 Mehdi Maysaghieh film The Humans [ensanha]
based on a screenplay by Mehdi Maysaghieh with cinematography by
Enayatallah Famin. The film was produced by the Misaghye Studio.
Plot Summary: Three men who did not have that much income met a blind
girl. Since she did not have anyone they took her home with them and
pretended they were wealthy men. The youngest of the three men fell
in love with the girl. With the help of his two friends he found a
way to cure her blindness. The day she got out of the hospital they
were afraid she would not accept them because of their situation in
life, but in fact she continued to accept them as she had done while
she was blind.
Cast and crew: Armaees, Aghamaliyan, Mehdi Maysaghieh, Arman, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Fourouzan, Akbar Khajavi, Mohsen Milani, Rooholah Mofidi, Majid Mohseni, Niktkaj Sabri, Mostafa
Tajik, Enayatollah Famin
