
Parviz Parastouei
Acting
Biography
Parviz Parastouei is an actor of television and cinema producer who was born in 1955 in Kabodar- Ahang, Iran. He started his career with the theater and for the first time, he played a role in cinema with "Diar-e Asheghan" movie and won an Honorary Diploma for Best First Role Actor for it. With the play in Majid Majidi's "The Willow Tree", "In the Name of the Father" and "The Bodyguard" by Ebrahim Hatami Kia, he won Crystal Simorgh Award for Best First Role Actor. Parviz Parastouei also won an Honorary Diploma of Best Actor for playing in the movie "Leily Is with Me", directed by Kamal Tabrizi. His other cinematic productions are Kamal Tabrizi's "The Lizard", Maziar Miri's "Book of Law", "Today" by Reza Mir Karimi and "Glass Agency" directed by Ibrahim Hatami Kia. He has also been featured in television series such as "Zire Tigh" and "Ashpaz Bashi" by Mohammad Reza Honarmand and "Khak-e Sorkh" by Ebrahim Hatami Kia.
Known For

The Saburi family is a large and old family that has been exporting and importing flowers and plants for many years. They still live in peace in an old house, the arrival of a young man in this family changes the lives of the whole family.
The Accomplice

series focusing on the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib, directed by Davood Mirbagheri and originally broadcast in 1992 in 22 episodes. It was subsequently released on DVD, with other editions including one with English sub-titles, and one dubbed into Urdu. The series covers the events before the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib to his assassination in Kufa, Iraq.
Imam Ali

Zire Tigh was an Iranian drama television series broadcast by the IRIB network. The series was finished after 19 episodes, and was extremely popular with viewers. It could be seen Wednesday nights after the nightly national news on Channel 1 in Iran. The show was later re-aired shown daily on IRIB 1, IRIB 2 and IRIB 3 for those living out of the country. The show's last episode aired March 12, 2007.
Sword's Edge

A political prisoner in Shaah regime who lost his little girl in Tehran City before his conviction, be released and return to his own city (Khorramshahr) after 15 years. In this time his girl knows about her origin and try to find her father, but Iran-Iraq war begins and Iraq army brunt to Khorramshahr City.
The Red Soil

The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom. He soon learns that being a clergyman brings little respect from the public. Reza travels to the outlying villages, from where he plots to escape the country. However, his plans must be put on hold when the villagers accept him into their community and expect him to perform religious duties. Will Reza's prison break transform him into an unlikely pillar of the community?
The Lizard

This series is an adaptation of the original story "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales. The story unfolds across three different times and locations: present-day Tehran, modern Istanbul, and a mystical, ancient world known as "The Other World," a parallel realm deeply intertwined with the current time. These worlds influence each other in unexpected and mysterious ways. The story begins in Tehran, where a string of disappearances has shaken the city-each case involving women.
1001 Nights

A Tehran taxi driver becomes the impromptu protector of a desperate young pregnant woman after he rushes her to hospital, in this delicate, deceptively small-scale drama from award-winning Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi.
Today

Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent and undertakes the reconstruction of the devastated capital. But then Ahriman, who dwells in the heart of every human being, begins to poison his tormented soul.
The Last Fiction

A once thriving reception hall has been reduced to catering to the funeral business and the somber rituals of death. The owner, Soleimani, is a sour, lonely and unloved old man who treats his workers with contempt, inflicting small cruelties whenever possible. Embittered and seeing a psychologist, he decides he will close the business in twenty days, sending his staff, already fighting just to get by, into a state of fear and uncertainty. Like a close-knit family, the staff members endure their daily suffering together. These good-hearted people include an ostracized young widow trying to survive with her daughter; a chef with a paralyzed arm who has a demanding wife; and two young men, working but homeless, who must sleep in the company's truck. Despite Soleimani's indifference to their plight, the people on his staff have retained their hope and humanity. As the threat of closure nears, they work together to save the hall and at the same time attend to each others' emotional needs.
Twenty

An armed veteran of the Iran-Iraq War takes hostages at a travel agency after failing to raise enough money for his injured comrade to travel abroad for medical treatment.
The Glass Agency

A government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.
Bodyguard

This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.
In the Name of the Father

During the Iran-Iraq war, a television cinematographer, having financial problems, needs to get a loan from the TV to complete his half-built flat so one of his colleagues suggests him going to the war zone under the pretext of making a documentary about the Iraqi captives for the sake of accompanying another man who is so influential in TV's treasury, so that he can take his loan more easily. However he doesn't want to get to the line of fire, his sanctimonious demeanor leads him to something more precious than what he started his journey for.
Leily is with Me

Two men come to Iran. One to visit his grandmother and another as an art dealer. When they discover that they are neighbors, the story begins.
Los Angeles/Tehran

Akbar Manafi is an injure of war and is hospitalized for that before. he is now working in a bus station. One day he sees in the TV his fellow soldier in the war Yahya. Yahya has been ...
The Reward of Silence

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
The Willow Tree

Colonel Mir Ata Khan, a Qara Soran officer who makes her living by trapping bandits, along with her military family members, go to a cursed hunting ground to carry out an important mission! ...
Hunting Ground

Maryam believes that she does not have much time to live, but two foresights cause her to reject her own feelings. A fortune teller informs her about an engineer proposing her with flower. On the other hand, a wandered gypsy has seen a passenger in white who has taken Maryam to cure her disease. Anyway, she marries, but this is not an end for her way.
Psycho

Rana (Elementary Teacher) and Amir (Worker's Crystal Workshop) have started their love life in the old neighborhood, on the margin of the city, unlike that the insane snap is marked to their simple happiness.
Anja, Haman saat

Ali Dehbashi, the editor-in-chief of Bukhara Magazine, is forced to vacate his rented office. While struggling with asthma and the pressure of publishing a special issue dedicated to Ferdowsi, he continues to honor artists and visit ailing cultural figures. Homeless and unwell, his devotion to Iran’s literary legacy keeps him going.