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Death Of Yazdgerd
''Death of Yazdgerd'' (or alternatively translated as ''Death of the King''; and whose original subtitle translates "Regicide") ( fa, مرگ یزدگرد) is a Persian play about the death of Yazdegerd III by Bahram Beyzai, often considered his ''magnum opus'', which he adapted into a film of the same name. Text In English The play was translated into English by Manuchehr Anvar and published in Tehran. Another English translation is named ''Death of the King'', published in ''Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran'' in Canada. Notable productions Premiere Beyzai produced this play for the first time in the City Theater of Tehran from 10 September 1979 to 29 October. Susan Taslimi and Mehdi Hashemi Mehdi Hashemi (1944 – 28 September 1987) was an Iranian Shi'a cleric who was defrocked by the Special Clerical Court. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he became a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards; he was executed by the Is ... pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahram Beyzai
Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, fa, بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the son of the poet Ne'matallah Beyzai (best known by his literary pseudonym "Zokā'i"). The celebrated poet Adib Beyzai, known as one of the most profound poets of 20th-century Iran, is Bahram's paternal uncle. Bahram Beyzaie's paternal grandfather, Mirzā Mohammad-Rezā Ārāni ("Ebn Ruh"), and paternal great-grandfather, the mulla Mohammad-Faqih Ārāni ("Ruh'ol-Amin"), were also notable poets. In spite of his somewhat belated start in cinema, Beyzai is often considered a pioneer of a generation of filmmakers whose works are sometimes described as the Iranian New Wave. His ''Bashu, the Little Stranger'' (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine ''Picture World'' poll of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Hashemi (actor)
Mehdi Hashemi ( fa, مهدی هاشمی, also Romanized as Mehdī Hāshemī, , born 7 December 1946) is an Iranian actor, screenwriter, and director. He also is the winner of the ninth International Fajr Film Festival award, Crystal Simorgh, for his playing in the film ''Do Film Ba Yek Belit'' (translates "one ticket for two movies"). He is the husband of Iranian actress, Golab Adineh, and brother of Nasser Hashemi. Selected filmography *''Zende bad'' (Long Live) (1979) *''Death of Yazdgerd'' (1982) *''Kharej az mahdudeh'' (1986) *''Bogzar zendegi konam (Let me Live)'' (1986) *''Qaribe (The Alien)'' (1987) *''Zard-e qanari (Canary Yellow)'' (1988) *''Shekar-e khamush (The Silent Hunt)'' (1990) *''Do film ba yek belit (Two Films with one Ticket)'' (1990) *''Ali va ghul-e jangal (Ali and the Forest Giant)'' (1990) *''Behtarin baba-ye donya (The Best Father in the World)'' (1991) *''Aqa-ye bakhshdar'' (1991) *''Once Upon a Time, Cinema'' (1992) *''Hamsar'' (The Spouse) (1994) *''Alo! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Plays Adapted Into Films
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Persian-language Books
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a derivatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran In Fiction
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About Iran
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Plays
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's European operations, which are based in Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border, ending large-scale fighting. * January 8 – Whiddy Island Disaster: The Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudipto Chatterjee
Sudipto Chatterjee ( bn, সুদীপ্ত চট্টোপাধ্যায়; born: 26 July 1964) is an Indian performance scholar actor, playwright and poet of Bengali descent. Chatterjee's His solo performance ''Man of the Heart'', about Lalon Fakir, has received acclaim. Career Chatterjee has taught at New York University, Tufts University and University of California, Berkeley in the US, along with Loughborough University in the UK, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences (Calcutta), National School of Drama and the Heritage Academy in India. He is (currently) the artistic director of Spectactors, a Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...-based Indian theater group. Sexual harassment allegations On 14 Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onelight Theatre
OneLight Theatre is a professional theatre company, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia whose primary function is to develop and produce new plays. In addition to its artistic work, OneLight Theatre also hosts conferences related to theatre arts, participates actively in professional organizations, and mentors emerging professional artists through the Firestarter program. OneLight Theatre's primary work is to develop and stage original theatrical productions, derived from a variety of international classic and modern source materials, through a disciplined collaborative process. In doing so, the company engages with a variety of artistic and academic professionals thereby developing an ever-widening dialogue about theatre in Canada. Through their work it strives to explore and broaden the understanding of theatre and its role in the cultural framework of Nova Scotia and Canada, and to facilitate national discussions about developments in the theatrical profession. Structure of the organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Taslimi
Susan Taslimi (also spelt Soosan Taslimi, fa, سوسن تسلیمی , born 7 February 1950) is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated from Iran in 1987, now living and working in Sweden. Biography Born in Rasht in 1950, Taslimi is the first non-European to play the lead role on a national theater stage in Sweden. She graduated in theater and acting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. She started film acting with Bahram Bayzai's ''Ballad of Tara'' in 1979. Filmography (as an actress) Films *'' Ballad of Tara'' ( fa, چریکه تارا, Tcherike-ye Tara, 1979, Iran) – as Tara *''Death of Yazdgerd'' (, Marg-e Yazdgerd, 1982, Iran) – as The Miller's wife *''Sarbedaran'' (; TV series, 1984, Iran) – as Fatemeh *''Madian'' (, a.k.a. The Mare, 1985, Iran) *''Telesm'' (, a.k.a. The Spell, 1986, Iran) – as Shahzdeh's bride *''Bashu, the Little Stranger'' (, Bashu, Gharibe-ye Kuchak, 1986, released in 1989, Iran) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muslim Conquest Of Persia
The Muslim conquest of Persia, also known as the Arab conquest of Iran, was carried out by the Rashidun Caliphate from 633 to 654 AD and led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire as well as the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion. The rise of the Muslims in Arabia coincided with an unprecedented political, social, economic, and military weakness in Persia. Once a major world power, the Sasanian Empire had exhausted its human and material resources after decades of warfare against the Byzantine Empire. The Sasanian state's internal political situation quickly deteriorated after the execution of King Khosrow II in 628. Subsequently, ten new claimants were enthroned within the next four years.The Muslim Conquest of Persia By A.I. Akram. Ch: 1 Following the Sasanian civil war of 628–632, the empire was no longer centralized. Arab Muslims first attacked Sasanian territory in 633, when Khalid ibn al-Walid invaded Mesopotamia (then known as the Sasanian province of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuchehr Anvar
Manuchehr Anvar ( fa, منوچهر انور; born 13 October 1928) is a Persian writer, editor, translator, director and former BBC radio presenter''. Translations Into Persian * ''A Doll's House'' by Henrik Ibsen Into English * ''Kalat Claimed'' by Bahram Beyzai * ''Death of Yazdgerd'' by Bahram Beyzai See also * Esmaeel Azar * Tahereh Saffarzadeh * Seyyed Mahdi Shojaee * Ahad Gudarziani * Masoumeh Abad * Ahmad Dehqan Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ... * Akbar Sahraee References Living people Mass media people from Tehran Iranian radio actors Iranian translators 1928 births {{Iran-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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