This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi for
the 2014 Azati Moguie film Tragedy written by Reza Karimi and
starring Mehdi Hashemi as Ghasem. Plot summary: Ghasem schemes to
stage a traffic accident hoping to extract blood money from someone
because his family circumstances have put him in financial straits.
Cast and crew: Azita Moguie, Behzad Khorshidi, Reza Karimi, Mehdi
Hashemi, Pantea Bahram, Payam Dehkordi, Siavash Derakhshi, Pezhman
Hadavi, Akbar Moazezi, Roya Nonahali, Bahram Radan, Enayatallah
Shafii, Hosein Yari
This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Iranian poster designed by Sheyban Khaghani to
promote the 2012 Fereydoun Jeyrani 97-minute color film I Am a
Mother [man madar hastam] starring Baran Kosari based on a story
by Fereydoun Jeyrani with cinematography by Morteza Ghofari. Plot
summary: The lives of two prosperous families are falling apart.
Things happen in the life of a 19-year-old girl named Ava in one of
the families [Baran Kosari] that expose many secrets in the lives of
the people in the story.
Poster warning in top left corner: The topic of this film is social
pathology; it is not recommended for people under the age of 16.
As the film begins this quote appears in white letters against a
black background: "All happy families are all alike; each unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Chapter 1.
Some conservative religious groups in Iran including the Ansar-e
Hezbollah protested the screening of this film and demanded the
revocation of its exhibition license. The film was edited to
accomodate these protests.
Pictured is a 26.5" x 38.25" Iranian poster designed by Mohammad Reza
Moradi to promote the 2012 Abdolreza Kahani film Useless and
Pointless [bikhod o bijahat] starring Reza Attaran based on a
story by Abdolreza Kahani with cinematography by Ali Loghmani. Plot
summary: This film is about two couples trying to move in and out of
the same apartment at the same time. This awkward situation was
created by a schedule collision with a wedding.
Cast and crew: Abdolreza Kahani, Reza Attaran, Pantea Bahram, Negar Javaherian, Ali Loghmani, Kamran Mohamadi, Ali Ostadi, Ahmad Mehranfar, Mohammad Kart
