Love-stricken (in

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

:''دل‌شدگان'';) is a 1992

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

historical drama A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romance film, romances, adventure f ...

film directed by

Ali Hatami Ali Hatami ( fa, علی حاتمی , August 14, 1944 – December 7, 1996) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, art director, and costume designer. The ''Tehran Times'' dubbed him "the Hafez of Iranian cinema due to the poetic ambiance of ...

. 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:

Amin Tarokh Amin Tarokh ( fa, امین تارخ; 11 August 1953 – 24 September 2022) was an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award. He also used to teach acting and was the teacher of famous actors li ...

Akbar Abdi Akbar Abdi ( fa, اکبر عبدی, born 26 August 1960) is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award. Career He began his career ...

Saeed Poursamimi Saeed Poursamimi (Persian: سعید پورصمیمی, born February 29, 1944) is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including three Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Actor, making him the only actor to have three wins in that ...

Mohamad Ali Keshavarz Mohamad-Ali Keshavarz ( fa, محمدعلی کشاورز; April 15, 1930 – June 14, 2020) was an Iranian cinema and theater actor. Early life He was born on 15 April 1930 in Sichan (neighbourhood), Isfahan. He was the second child of the family ...

Jamshid Hashempour Jamshid Hashempour ( fa, جمشید هاشم‌پور; born March 23, 1944), birth name Jamshid Arya (), is an Iranian actor. Jamshid Hashempour has starred in action and thriller movies and has performed in more than 80 films. Filmography * ''Da ...

Hamid Jebelli Hamid Jebelli ( fa, حمید جبلی; born ) is an Iranian stage and film actor and director. He was born in Tehran, Iran. He has directed two films; Khab-e Sefid (White Dream) and Pesar-e Maryam (son of Mary). He is also the voice actor of Ira ...

Fathali Oveisi Fathali Oveisi ( fa, فتحعلی اویسی; 11 January 1946 – 5 October 2021) was an Iranian actor and director. Biography He is best known for ''Captain Khorshid'' (1987), ''Baanoo'' (1999), ''Hamoun'' (1990), ''Love-stricken'' (1992) and ' ...

, Shahla Riahi, Leili Rashidi,

Leila Hatami Leila Hatami ( fa, لیلا حاتمی; born October 1, 1972) is an Iranian actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Bear, two Crystal Simorghs, two Hafez Awards, two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and three Iran's Film ...

, and Anna Borkowska. Love-stricken is in celebration and praise of

Iranian music The music of Iran encompasses music that is produced by Iranian artists. In addition to the traditional folk and classical genres, it also includes pop and internationally celebrated styles such as jazz, rock, and hip hop. Iranian music influ ...

. 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 Barbad or Bārbad ( fa, باربد; various other names; ) was a Persian poet-musician, lutenist, music theorist and composer of Sasanian music who served as chief minstrel-poet under Shahanshah Khosrow II (). A '' barbat'' player, he is among ...

". The film music was composed by famous Iranian musicians such as Hussein Alizadeh as composer and

Mohammad Reza Shajarian Mohammad-Reza Shajarian ( fa, محمدرضا شجريان; , 23 September 1940 – 8 October 2020) was an Iranian singer and master (''Ostad'') of Persian traditional music. He was also known for his skills in Persian calligraphy and humanitaria ...

as singer. Love-stricken was 13th film of Ali Hatami after some both commercial and artistic successes of his previous films like:

Mother ] A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given childbirth, birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the cas ...

Sooteh-Delan Sooteh-Delan (meaning broken-hearted people) ( fa, سوته دلان) is a 1977 Iranian film directed and written by Ali Hatami, produced by Ali Abbasi and starring Behrouz Vosoughi. The film is the story of an old family in Tehran, in which Jams ...

Sattar Khan Sattar Khan ( fa, ستارخان, , October 20, 1866 – November 17, 1914), honorarily titled Sardār-e Melli ( fa, سردار ملی meaning ''National Commander'') was a pivotal figure in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and is considered ...

Hajji Washington ''Hajji Washington'' ( fa, حاجی واشنگتن, italic=yes) is an Iranian comedy/drama film directed by Ali Hatami. The film is a fictionalized account of Iran's first ambassador to the United States, Hajji Washington. Filmed in Italy (filli ...

and

Kamalolmolk Mohammad Ghaffari ( fa, محمد غفاری), better known as Kamal-ol-Molk (), was an Iranian painter and part of the Ghaffari family in Kashan. Biography Mohammad Ghaffari, better known as Kamal-ol-Molk, born in Kashan in 1848, to a family w ...

Title

According to

Dehkhoda Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhodā ( fa, علی‌اکبر دهخدا; 1879–March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian linguist and lexicographer. He was the author of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language pu ...

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, the word "Del Shodegan" is the plural form of "Delshodeh". In

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 A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...

at the Conservatoire de Paris. A group of best musicians gather under the direction of Maestro 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 Iran, 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 *

as Agha Faraj Boulsik *

Jamshid Hashempur Jamshid Hashempour ( fa, جمشید هاشم‌پور; born March 23, 1944), birth name Jamshid Arya (), is an Iranian actor. Jamshid Hashempour has starred in action and thriller movies and has performed in more than 80 films. Filmography * ''Da ...

as Iran's Ambassador to France * Shahla Riahi as Delnavaz's Wife *

as Naser-Khan Deylaman *

as Mirza Mahmoud *

Hamid Jebeli Hamid Jebelli ( fa, حمید جبلی; born ) is an Iranian stage and film actor and director. He was born in Tehran, Iran. He has directed two films; Khab-e Sefid (White Dream) and Pesar-e Maryam (son of Mary). He is also the voice actor of Ira ...

as Khosro Khan Rahabi *

as Leila * Leili Rashidi 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 ( tar),

Saeed Farajpouri Saeed Farajpouri, was born on February 20, 1961 in Sanadaj, Iran. He is a composer, performer and an instructor of a classical Iranian instrument called Kamancheh or Spike Fiddle. He started learning music at age 9 under Maestro Hassan Kamkar, a ...

( kamancheh), Arshad Tahmasebi (tar) and

Dariush Zargari Dariush ( fa, داریوش; also spelled ''Darioush'', ''Daryoush'' or ''Daryoosh'') is a common Persian male given name in Iran. Dariush is composed of ''dāraya-'' old+ ''vash-'' ood meaning "holding firm the good". It was the throne name of D ...

(

santur The santur (also ''santūr'', ''santour'', ''santoor'') ( fa, سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins.--- Rashid, Subhi Anwar (1989). ''Al-ʼĀlāt al-musīqīyya al-muṣāhiba lil-Maqām al-ʻIrāqī''. Baghdad: Matbaʻat al-ʻU ...

is the lead singer of the score. Although at first Hatami wanted

Hossein Dehlavi Hossein Dehlavi ( fa, حسین دهلوی) (September 30, 1927 – October 15, 2019) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian composer. Biography Hossein Dehlavi was born in 1927 in Tehran, Iran and started music with his father Moezeddin Emami who was ...

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

Track listing

Other personnel

*Aziz Sa'ati – still photographer *

Morteza Momayez Morteza Momayez ( fa, مرتضی ممیز; August 26, 1936 – October 25, 2005) was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society (IGDS) and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) ...

– 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

Fajr 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. T ...

as follows: *Best Sound Recorder *Best Sound Mix *Best Music It was also nominated in 2001

Three Continents Festival The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.

References

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External links

Delshodegan
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– A song by Mohammad Reza Shajarian in YouTube 1990s historical drama films 1992 films Films about music and musicians Films directed by Ali Hatami Films set in Paris Films set in Tehran Iranian historical drama films 1990s Persian-language films 1992 drama films