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Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh

Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh

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Known For

Hassan, the Bald
5.8

Inspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life. But when fulfilled, his wishes do not emerge the same he envisioned…

Hassan, the Bald

1970
Dash Akol
6.0

Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.

Dash Akol

1971
Qeysar
6.9

A young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.

Qeysar

1969
Dancer of the City
5.5

A man not content with his wife, falls in love with a club dancer; but doesn't tell her he is married. The story is as bitter as real life.

Dancer of the City

1970
Ghazal
7.8

Two brothers Hojjat and Zein-Ala'bedin are the guards of the jungle and live alone by themselves. One day they are notice that some people are cutting the trees illegally. Hojjat chases them but returns home with a girl named Ghazal.

Ghazal

1976
The ring-necked dove
5.2

Seyed Morteza, a pigeon fancier, lives in Kashan with his blind mother. He captures a ring-necked dove that all the local dove fanciers are after. His mother considers the dove a bad omen and asks Seyed Morteza to let it go. Meanwhile, Seyed Morteza’s uncle, Seyed Mostafa, sends him to Shiraz to propose to his fiancée, Tooba. Morteza and Tooba fall in love and get married. Morteza brings Tooba back to Kashan but tells nothing about it to his mother or his uncle. His mother discovers their relationship and, believing Morteza has betrayed them, curses him. Mostafa arrives and overhears her words...

The ring-necked dove

1970
Face of the Enemy
7.0

Years after his release from captivity as a hostage during the US embassy hostage crisis in Tehran, a former US intelligence officer comes face to face with one of his former Iranian captors in Los Angeles.

Face of the Enemy

1989
Reza, the Motorcyclist
6.8

Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so.

Reza, the Motorcyclist

1970
Behrouz: A Legend on Screen
N/A

Behrouz Vossoughi, legendary Iranian actor, leaves his country just before the revolution in 1978, and he could never return to his homeland. This is the story of his journey, living in exile.

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen

2017
The Curse
4.0

An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...

The Curse

1973
The Roar of the Storm
N/A

A young fisherman lives a quiet life with his wife until a group of cameramen go to his village.

The Roar of the Storm

1969
The Suitor
6.3

Mr. Khavari, a calligraphy teacher who is the tenant of an aristocratic family has fallen in love with their daughter. But the hand of fate is working against his heartfelt sentiments. Every time he find a chance to ask for the girl's hand, a rival crops up that marries the girl and make him a loser. But Khavari proves himself a persevering suitor...

The Suitor

1972
Uncle Moustache
7.0

A lonely old man takes to terrorizing the kids who build a football pitch next to his house.

Uncle Moustache

1970
The Deer
6.9

An urban guerrilla, wounded after a bank robbery, seeks refuge with his childhood friend—only to discover that his friend has fallen into addiction. The guerrilla hides in his house and gradually begins to influence him, helping him regain his courage and strength. Eventually, he entrusts the stolen money to him…

The Deer

1976
Parrot
6.5

Hashem and Bahman are two intimate friends who spend their time in the notorious neighborhood. One day there they meet a girl Tuti. Hashem falls in love with her and this is the beginning of the troubles for them.

Parrot

1977
Guests of Hotel Astoria
3.3

An Iranian couple (Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mohsen Marzban) declare themselves political refugees after police detain them on their way to Cuba.

Guests of Hotel Astoria

1989
Biganeh Biya
4.5

A young guy leaves his pregnant girlfriend and goes to Europe to study. The disappointed girl try to commit suicide but at last moments is saved by the brother of that guy. He marries her ...

Biganeh Biya

1969
Release
N/A

A short film about teenagers catching red fish in the south of Iran.

Release

1971
Oriental Boy
6.5

The boys of the neighborhood are dividing into two groups to run a kite. The first groups are watching the kite happily but the other group try to take it down. The kite is flew away but the sorrow of that only leads the boys of the two groups to befriend each other.

Oriental Boy

1975
Farhad's Fridays
N/A

This documentary takes a view on the life of famous Iranian musician and singer, Farhad Mehrad, one of the most important figures of Iranian rock music in 20th century.

Farhad's Fridays

2012