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The Blue Veiled
The Blue Veiled ( fa, روسریآبی; Rusari Abi) is a 1995 Iranian Romance-drama film written and directed by Rakhshān Banietemad. Plot ''Rasoul Rahmani'' (Ezzatolah Entezami) owns a tomato farm and he has a factory next to it. He, who lost his wife a few years ago, lives alone. ''Nobar Kurdani'' (Fatemeh Motamed-Arya) is a woman who takes care of her family and has to work. She is selected along with several other women to work on the farm and... Cast * Ezzatolah Entezami * Fatemeh Motamed-Arya * Golab Adineh * Afsar Asadi * Baran Kosari * Behnaz Jafari * Reza Fayazi * Farhad Aslani * Nematollah Gorji * Faghiheh Soltani Faghiheh Soltani ( Persian: فقیهه سلطانی) is an Iranian actress. Biography Soltani was born in Hamedan in 1974, and studied drama at Islamic Azad University. She took acting lessons with Golab Adineh. She made her acting debut in ... * Jamshid Esmailkhani * Nadia Golchin * Nayereh Farahani * Mehri Mehrnia * Abbas Mohebbi * Mohs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakhshān Banietemad
Rakhshān Banietemad ( fa, رخشان بنیاعتماد; born April 3, 1954 in Tehran, Iran) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter who is widely considered a premier female director and her films have been praised at international festivals as well as being popular with Iranian critics and audiences. Her title as "First Lady of Iranian Cinema" is not only a reference to her prominence as a filmmaker, but also connotes her social role of merging politics and family in her work. Her signature style is that she focuses on a character that is the representation of a part of the society in order to explore it while staying objectively neutral. The first period of Banietemad's cinematic activity originates from a kind of dark humor, but in the second period of her work, dark humor gives way to serious and influential films, and deeper and broader issues are addressed. Banietemad has a more realistic view of life. She excels in represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faghiheh Soltani
Faghiheh Soltani (Persian: فقیهه سلطانی) is an Iranian actress. Biography Soltani was born in Hamedan in 1974, and studied drama at Islamic Azad University. She took acting lessons with Golab Adineh. She made her acting debut in 1995, appearing in the film ''The Blue Veiled'' by acclaimed director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. Since then, she has appeared in many films and TV series. Among her notable films are ''Soorati'' (2003) by Fereydoun Jeyrani, ''Sunglasses'' (1999), and '' The Miracle of Laughter'' by Yadollah Samadi Yadollah Samadi ( fa, یدالله صمدی, (17 November 1952 – 25 September 2018) was an Iranian film director. He was known for directing the film ''Desire to Fly''. References External links * Yadollah Samadiin Internet database of Sour .... She was nominated for the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress for the latter role, but eventually lost to Golchehreh Sajadiye. She is married to Iranian footballer Jalal Omidian. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Films
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Romance Film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage is featured. These films make the search for romantic love the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
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 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fajr International Film Festival
Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بینالمللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. The festival is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. It takes place on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The awards are the Iranian equivalent to the American Academy Awards. The festival has been promoted locally and internationally through television, radio and webinars; speakers have come from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Organizations contributing to the event have included the Farabi Cinema Foundation, Iran film foundation, Press TV, HispanTV and Iran's multi-lingual film channel IFilm. From 2015, the festival has been separated into a national festival in February, which is notable for premieres of the most important domestic movies, and an international one, held in April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Saati
Aziz Sa'ati, ( fa, عزیز ساعتی), born in Tehran in 1948, Sa'ati graduated from the School-of Television and Cinema with a specialty in cinematography and videography. After teaching courses on photography and laboratory work at the School, he began his professional career as a still photographer on the set of Bahram Beizai's ''THE CROW''. Sa'ati brought a new seriousness and artistic capability to the job of set photographer, and he is noted for upgrading the standards of that position. He worked as set photographer for many of Iran's best known directors. His set photographs have won many awards and been featured in major exhibitions. Work Sa'ati's work as a photographer, cinematographer, and director includes: Still photographer *1976 - The Crow, The Night Never End. *1977 - Tall Shadows of the Wind, Samad Goes to the Town. *1979 - The Ballade of Tara. *1982 - Death of Yazdgerd, The Red Line. *1984 - Kamal-ol-molk. 1987 - Silk and Blade, The Peddler «award winner f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Pejman
Ahmad Pejman ( fa, احمد پژمان ; born 1935), also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, is an Iranian classical composer who resides in the United States. Pejman is notable for his operatic and symphonic works. Biography Born in 1935 in Lar, Iran, Pejman was exposed to the sounds and rhythms of southern Iran from early childhood. In high school he started violin lessons with Heshmat Sanjari and music theory with Hossein Nassehi. As a young violinist with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, he was awarded a scholarship to study composition at the Music Academy in Vienna. He studied composition with Thomas Christian David, Alfred Uhl, and Hans Jelineck, Friedrich Cerha As a first year student at the Academy, Pejman's compositions were performed by the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and his orchestral work ''Rhapsody'' was performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. In his third year as a student, he was commissioned to write the first Persian Opera ''Rustic Festival'' for the ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nematollah Gorji
Nemat'o'llāh Gorji ( fa, نعمتالله گرجی; 30 March 1926, in Tehran – 5 April 2000, in Tehran) was an Iranian theatre and film actor of Georgian descent. Gorji acted in at least 94 Iranian films, some of which have come to be ranked amongst the most celebrated Iranian films of the 1970s. His last role was that of an old and kind-hearted gardener-caretaker in ''The Pear Tree'' (''Derakht-e Golābi''), 1998, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.''Nematollah Gorji'''Sureh Association''(in Persian) Filmography *''Mashti Mamdali's Car'' (1974) *''Hostage'' (1974) *''Youthful Days'' (1999-2000) *''The Blue Veiled'' (1995) See also * Bāgh-e Ferdows References External links * Home Page o''Film Museum of Iran'' * Photograph of the graveside of Nematollah Gorji at ''Behesht-e Zahra Behesht-e Zahra ( fa, بهشت زهرا, lit. ''The Paradise of Zahra'', from Fatima az-Zahra) is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part of metropolitan Tehran, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezzatolah Entezami
Ezzatolah Entezami ( fa, عزتالله انتظامی, 21 June 1924 – 17 August 2018) was an Iranian actor. Career Ezzatolah Entezami started his career on stage in 1941 and graduated from theatre and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in 1958. He has been acting in movies since 1969. His debut performance in Darius Mehrjui’s film, '' The Cow'', received the Silver Hugo in Chicago International Film Festival in 1971. He shined in the role of a naive villager who cannot endure the death of his beloved cow and starts to believe that he is the cow himself. Entezami was known as one of the most prominent actors in Iranian cinema and has been labeled as the greatest actor in the history of the cinema of Iran. He worked with most of the prominent Iranian film directors, including Darius Mehrjui (eight films), Ali Hatami (four films), Nasser Taqvaee, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Behrouz Afkhami and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. He was awarded the Crystal Simorgh for the Best Actor twice from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhad Aslani
Farhad ( fa, فرهاد ''farhād''), also spelt Ferhaad or Ferhod, has been a Persian name for men since the Parthians, first recorded for Arsacid kings circa 170 BC. Etymology Modern Persian name ''Farhād'' () is derived from Middle Persian ''Frahād'' (in xpr, 𐭐𐭓𐭇𐭕 prht ''Frahāt''; in grc, Φραάτης ''Phraatēs''), ultimately from Old Iranian *''fra-hāta''- "merited, obtained".Hübschmann, Armenische Grammatik. D. N. MacKenzie, “Some Names from Nisa,” in Peredneaziatskiĭ sbornik IV: Drevnyaya isrednevekovaya istoriya i filologiya stran perednego i srednego vostoka, Moscow, 1986, pp. 105–15 (reprinted iIdem, Iranica diversa, ed. C. G. Cereti and L. Paul, Rome, 1999, pp. 209–15. Places *Farhad, Nishapur – a village in Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *Farhād Tarāsh – a rockface on Mount Behistun, Iran Literature * Farhad (Persian literature) People with the given name Farhad * Farhad I Phraates I of Parthia c. 176–17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Fayazi
Reza Fayazi (in Persian: رضا فیاضی, born ) is an Iranian director and actor. He graduated in theater from Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran. Biography In 1976, he played a role in the series ''Golbaran'' directed by ''Reza Babak''. He then appeared in the movie Ballad of Tara directed by Bahram Beyzai and also acted as the stage manager. Since then, he has worked in various artistic fields, including writing, puppetry, and radio, and has appeared in several television programs as a presenter. Selected filmography * '' Ballad of Tara'', 1979 * ''Statue'', 1992 * ''The Fateful Day'', 1995 * ''The Blue Veiled'', 1995 * ''Chariot of Death'', 1996 * ''Starry Sky'', 1999 * '' Under the City's Skin (TV series)'', 2002 * ''Roozegar-e Gharib'', 2007 * ''The Enigma of the Shah ''The Enigma of the Shah'' () is an Iranian historical drama television series, directed by Mohammad Reza Varzi. The story focuses on Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the final Shah of Iran, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
