Saeed Asadi
Directing
Biography
Saeid Asadi is a director who was born in 1953 in Tehran, Iran. He started his career in cinema and starred as a director in “The Lost Love” in 1997. He has featured as a director in movies such as “Swan Song”, “Pay Off”, “The Guest” and “24th Street”.
Known For
A young taxi driver who is a happy man encounters lots of different stories through his daily life. One day, he is driving a young American woman and he enters an unusual and protracted adventure which he should follow to the end. The American woman has lost the address she is going to refer and it is almost impossible to reach her relatives. The young driver believes that he should help the woman until she finds her relatives and this issue causes many problems between him and his fiancee. He also has other problems regarding the American woman and his unusual friend.
The Guest
After being unjustly expelled from university, a young couple return home to parents who are against their union. After the young man is arrested and subsequently breaks out of prison, the two decide to go on the run. As they plan and move forward with their escape, the police hunt them at every turn. With the two ignorant to the extent of the trouble they are in, will they ever manage to get their happy ending?
Swan Song
Sture Lundblad was a Swedish volunteer fighter in the Spanish civil war. Sture is now dead. His son Michael has inherited a house in Spain and decides to follow the trail of his father.
The Ebro Runs Dry
After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a young daughter in another town and prepares to kill them as well. But this time things go differently for all of them.
Khiabane Bisto Chaharom
A young couple, due to significant differences, decide to separate. However, the day before the divorce, the man finds out that his wife has cancer and has at most two months to live. He therefore decides to prevent their divorce so that after his wife's death, he can be her heir…
Pay-off
Neda who believes in money rather than love leaves her fiance Farhad and marries an older wealthy man Foruzesh on condition that he gives her all his fortune. But when she goes to Kish Island for her honeymoon the bitter truth is revealed for her.
Eve's Red Apple
July 1972 in Iran. Mohammed is arrested for illegal spreading of flyers. He is put in jail and tortured. After one year he is released and flees to Sweden. He arrives at a refugee camp where he is taught Swedish. He is surrounded by people without hope.