This is a 27.5" x 19.5" Iranian poster by an unknown designer for the
1969 film Hearts of Gold قلبهای طلایی written and directed by Esmaeil
Poorsaeid and starring Pouri Baneai. Plot summary: A young engineer
named Parviz [Abdullah Butimar] lost several of his important projects
and his capital to flooding. He was ashamed to go back home to his
wife Farideh [Pouri Baneai] and became homeless. His wife went
looking for him and after some difficulties the two started a new life
together.
Cast and crew: Esmaeil Poorsaeid, Abdollah Butimar, Pouri Baneai, Hooshang Beheshti, Bahmanyar, Fereshteh, Akbar Hashemi, Arasteh, Maziyar Parto
This is a 27" x 19.5" Iranian poster designed by Davvalu for the 1964
Nosratolah Vahdat film The Foreign Bride based on a screenplay
by Ahmad Najibzadeh and starring Pouri Baneai as Marya, the foreign
bride. The film tells the story of the taxi driver Hoseyn [Nosratolah
Vahdat] who is unable to marry his fiance because of financial
problems and is working overtime. He gets involved with a foreign girl
named Marya, who soon decides she wants to marry him. After a few
incidents the taxi driver decides he prefers to marry his fiance.
This is a 27.5" x 13" Iranian poster designed by an unknown artist to
promote the 1966 Mohamad Ali Fardin 115-minute black-and-white
film Hatam Ta'i starring Fardin based on a screenplay by Fardin
with cinematography by Mehdi Amir Qasemkhani. The film was produced
by the Misaghyeh Studio. Plot summary: Gavaran Khan decided to seek
the hand of Hatam's daughter Puneh in marriage on behalf of Abbas.
With the cooperation of her cousin Sharareh, Puneh asked her father to
give her ten days to introduce the youth she wanted for herself. One
day the automobile carrying Sharareh and Puneh broke down on the road
and the two of them asked the blacksmith Jalal and his apprentice
Ahmad for help. Dressed in men's clothing, Puneh and Sharareh went to
Jalal's favorite cafe to get to know him better. Puneh revealed her
interest in Jalal and Jalal went to meet Hatam in work clothes
using the name Farrokh Nozar to ask for Puneh's hand. Hatam drove him
away and Jalal angrily left Puneh. Puneh ran away from home and went
to the home of Jalal's mother. Hatam pleaded and gave Jalal a check
for three million tumans, asking him to stay away from his daughter.
Jalal tore the check up in front of Hatam. Under the influence of
Jalal's behavior Hatam told his daughter what had happened and then
sent her after Jalal.
Cast and crew: Mohamad Ali Fardin, Mahdi Amir Qasemkhani, Pouri Baneai, Homayoun, Hooshang Beheshti, Mohsen Arasteh, Akbar Khajavi, Hooshang Sarang, Gholamhossein Bahmanyar, Iran Ghaderi, Abdollah Mohammadi, Hassan Raziani, Rostam Khani, Mansour Sepehrnia, Tabrizi
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
One Step to Paradise [yek qadam ta behesht] (1966) - (Nosratolah Vahdat) Iranian film poster
This is a 25.5" x 13" Iranian poster designed by Ahang to promote the
1966 105-minute Nosratolah Vahdat black-and-white film One Step to
Paradise [yek qadam ta behesht] starring Nosratolah Vahdat based on a screenplay by
Nosratolah Vahdat with cinematography by Shokrollah Rafii. The film
was produced by the Naqshe Jahan Studio. Plot summary: A woman in
despair and without shelter leaves her child by the side of a road. An
indigent but kindly man finds the child. The woman returns in remorse
to take the child but does not find him. From then on she puts all of
her effort into caring for children. Years later the mother finds her
child and the boy requires her to marry his father as a condition for
accepting her.
Cast and crew: Nosratolah Vahdat, Shokrollah Rafii, Pouri Baneai, Homayoun, Gholamhosein Bahmanyar, Seyyed Ali Miri, Yuri, Sonya, Mir Mohammad Tajaddod, Safapour, Mohammad Reza Rafi'i
This is a 21" x 13" Iranian locandina poster printed by Piovano |
Studio Paradiso to promote the 1966 Samouel Khachikian 120-minute
black-and-white film Goodbye Tehran [khoda hafez tehran]
starring Behrouz Vossoughi based on a screenplay by Samouel Khachikian
with cinematography by Nosratollah Kani. The film was produced by
Studio Moulin Rouge. Plot summary: The story takes place in 1945-1946
during the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis. Azar [Pouri Baneai] loved her
young boss Behruz [Behruz Vossoughi] but she was a blind maid working
for an aristocratic family and never revealed her feelings. She gave
up hope when Behruz returned from Europe with his European fiancee.
She told herself a blind girl has no right to fall in love. Her
consolation was that Tehran is a city of poetry that always rises
above depression. She became a nurse and gave her heart to it. One
day she saw Behruz while caring for soldiers on the front lines. He
had been injured in the fighting and did not recognize her. By this
time she had recovered her sight with treatment at Pahlavi
University's Saadi Hospital, changed her name to Mitra and taken on a
new personality. Behruz's European fiancee had left Iran and he was
free to form a relationship with Mitra.
Cast and crew: Samouel Khachikian, Behrouz Vossoughi, Pouri Baneai, Iran Ghaderi, Jalal Pishvaian, Adile Eshragh, Maria Maghfurian, Saghi, Aziz Asli
Thief in Black [dozd-e siyahpush] (1968) - (Behrouz Vossoughi) Iranian film poster
This is a 19.5" x 27.5" Iranian poster designed by Davvalu to promote
the 1968 Amir Shervan 90-minute black-and-white film Thief in
Black [dozd-e siyahpush] based on a screenplay by Amir Shervan
with cinematography by Maziar Parto. This film was a product of the
Misaghye Studio. Plot summary: Two brothers become separated during
childhood. Then when they find each other after a period of time one
has become known as the thief in black and the other has become a
deputy of the law. The two brothers had conflicting feelings about
their love for each other and the law. From then on in numerous
incidents the thief in black showed he would not return to the natural
and correct life, so the two of them were pitted against each other.
Then the older brother was able to but the story of the thief in black
behind them forever.
Cast and crew: Amir Shervan, Maziar Parto, Behrouz Vossoughi, Pouri Baneai, Taghi Zohuri, Kataivan, ABdollah Butimar, Azdahi, Farrokh Leqa Hushmand, Mina, Hooshang Beheshti, Samad Sabahi, Jahangir Ghaffari, Akbar Khajavi
Pictured is a 13" x 27.5" Italian locandina-style promotional poster
designed by Davvalu and printed in Iran by Jahanbakht printers to
promote the 1965 Abbas Shabaviz film Our Town Blonde starring
Mohammad Ali Fardin and Pouri Baneai, based on a screenplay by Abbas
Shabaviz and with cinematography by Ahmad Shirazi. The film was
produced by the Iran Film Company. Plot summary: A young mechanic met
a woman who drew him into narcotics smuggling. In a series of events
the youth exposed the gang's secrets, turned them over to the law and
married the girl he loved.
Cast and crew: Abbas Shabaviz, Pouri Baneai, Mohamad Ali Fardin, Parvin Ghaffari, Jalal Pishvaian, Taghi Zohuri, Ahmad Shirazi, Shahran Shokufandeh, Jahangir Ghaffari, Mohammad Taqi Kohanmui
