This is a 26.5" x 38" poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi for the 2014
film Hussein, Who Said No written and directed by Ahmad Reza
Darvish and starring Arash Asefi as Bokeir. Plot summary: This $15
million publicly-funded Iranian epic tells the story of Imam Hussein's
ill-fated Karbala battle in 680 A.D. against the Umayyad Caliph Yazid
[Babak Hamidian].
This is a 27.25" x 38.5" Iranian poster designed by Ebrahim Haghighi
to promote the 2012 Morteza Harandi 110-minute color film Without
Permission [bedune ejaze] starring Yasmina Baher based on a story
by Ali Hosseini with cinematography by Afshin Alizadeh. Plot summary:
Yasi [Yasmina Baher] is a happy friendly 20-year-old girl. She likes
to buy things with her father's money but he is restrictive. She is
quite cautious about her affairs until her life is disrupted one day
when she is photographed without her knowledge at a department store
and then finds herself being stalked and blackmailed.
Cast and crew: Morteza Harandi, Afshin Alizadeh, Soolmaz Aghmaghani, Dariush Arjmand, Zohre Hamidi, Mohammad Kasebi, Nasrin Moghanloo, Mahdi Pakdel, Amir Yal Arjmand, Yasmina Baher, Hamid Taleghani, Baran Zamani, Sanaz Kamalvand, Faraj Golsefidi
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).
