Love-stricken (in Persian:''دل‌شدگان'';) is a 1992

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film directed by

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. The movie is mainly about some

classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France. The film uses many notable Iranian actors and actresses. Among them are:

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, Akbar Abdi, Saeed Poursamimi,

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, Jamshid Hashempour, Hamid Jebelli, Fathali Oveisi,

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, Leila Hatami, and Anna Borkowska. Love-stricken is in celebration and praise of Iranian music. At the beginning of the film an

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is seen which says: "This film is dedicated to The Great Masters of Iranian Music in the millennium anniversary of Barbad". The film music was composed by famous Iranian musicians such as Hussein Alizadeh as composer and Mohammad Reza Shajarian as singer. Love-stricken was 13th film of Ali Hatami after some both commercial and artistic successes of his previous films like:

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, Sooteh-Delan, Sattar Khan, Hajji Washington and Kamalolmolk.

Title

According to Dehkhoda dictionary, the word "Del Shodegan" is the

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form of "Delshodeh". In Persian it means "the lovelorn" or "worried" people. "love-stricken" or "love-struck" is another translation.

Plot

His imperial majesty Ahmad Shah Qajar asks a group of Iranian musicians, unaffiliated with the royal court, to record a sample of Persian Classical Music on newly invented gramophone at the

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. A group of best musicians gather under the direction of

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Delnavaz. A singer named Taher (Amin Tarokh) also accompanies them to the journey to Paris. They can record several gramophone discs after a lot of troubles. Taher who has fallen in love with a blind Turkish princess dies of an illness. As the others decide to come back to

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, one of them says he wants to stay in Europe and learn "scientific music". Other members return to Iran with broken hearts, their friend's corpse and some recorded gramophone discs of Iranian treasure.

Cast

*Faramarz Sadighi as Maestro Delnavaz *

as Taher Khan Bahr-eh Nour * Akbar Abdi as Agha Faraj Boulsik * Jamshid Hashempur as Iran's Ambassador to France *

as Delnavaz's Wife * Saeed Poursamimi as Naser-Khan Deylaman *

as Mirza Mahmoud * Hamid Jebeli as Khosro Khan Rahabi * Leila Hatami as Leila *

as Agha Faraj's Wife * Anna Borkowska as Madam *Saeed Amir Soleymani as Nayeb Al-saltaneh *Jalal Moghadam as Eesa-khan-e Vazir *Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad as Dayeh *Turan Mehrzad as Naser Khan's Wife * Mehri Vadadian as Faraj's Mother *Soroor Nejatollahi as Khosor Khan's Wife *Hooshang Beheshti as Haj Agha Monfared Nabatriz *Ali Asghar Garmsiri as Ostad Yousef *Babak Eskandari as Ahmad Shah *Elmira Abdi as Agha Faraj Daughter *Foad Chavmeh as Taher's Childhood *Rashid Aslani as Afandi

Production

Ali Hatami wrote about 4 hours of

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for Love-stricken. Although all of the script was shot, but they had to edit it to a normal 90 minutes film. the actual film was shot in 19 acts, but Hatami cut out about 10 acts of it in the editing room.

Music

Music of the film is composed by Hossein Alizadeh (

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), Saeed Farajpouri (

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(tar) and

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(

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). Mohammad Reza Shajarian is the lead singer of the score. Although at first Hatami wanted Hossein Dehlavi to cooperate with Alizadeh but Dehlavi thought it would be better if Alizadeh worked on the tracks alne. For the lyrics different poems of Hafiz,

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and Ali Hatami was used. ٰThe soundtrack is dedicated to The Great Masters of Iranian Music in the millennium anniversary of Barbad.

Track listing

Other personnel

*Aziz Sa'ati – still photographer * Morteza Momayez – title *Abdollah Eskandari – makeup artist *Ali Hatami – art direction *Ali Hatami – costume design * Ahmad Bakhshi – assistant director *Noor Mohammad Najjari – assistant director * Hassan Yektapanah – assistant director

Awards and nominations

Love-stricken was nominated in three categories in 1992

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as follows: *Best Sound Recorder *Best Sound Mix *Best Music It was also nominated in 2001 Three Continents Festival for "best film".

References

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External links

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