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Esmaeil Khalaj

Esmaeil Khalaj

Acting

Biography

Esmaeil Khalaj is an Iranian playwright and film and television writer, director, and actor. He was born in Astara, but went to Tehran and studied acting under the Iranian acting teacher and director, Abdolhossein Noushin. He started to write plays in the 1970s.

Known For

Shahriar
3.0

A television series about Mohammadhossein Shariar's life, directed by Kamal Tabrizi, aired on IRIB channel 2.

Shahriar

2007
Modest Reception
6.4

An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.

Modest Reception

2013
There's Always a Woman in Between
3.3

A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people are intervening.

There's Always a Woman in Between

2008
The Spring
6.0

A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When he realizes the woman's affection for a young libertine with whom she is secretly meeting in an abandoned house, he commits suicide. When the local women, out of jealousy, expose her, she also ends her life. Her husband buries her body in the abandoned bathhouse. The young libertine, driven to madness, wanders into the desert.

The Spring

1973
A Piece of Bread
7.8

A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran.

A Piece of Bread

2005
Paradise of Criminals
N/A

No description available.

Paradise of Criminals

2024
Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother
7.4

A young playwright and director wants to write and perform a historical drama about faith in the Ashkani period of Iran. There is an incongruity between the man's personal life, and his quest to pursue and present history. The woman who lives with him believes he should not neglect their relationship when embarking on such a quest. The people who work with the playwright believe the play ought to be made popular to satisfy the public. Finally, this matter makes the playwright perform the play all by himself.

Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother

1976
35 Meters Below Sea Level
N/A

A film about a muslim guy and his sex drive.

35 Meters Below Sea Level

2006
There is No Rain in Hell
N/A

Innocent civilians search for love, hope and meaning as they rebuild their lives in the aftermath of a devastating war; each protecting something which represents a strand of life in a place where there is no sign of existence.

There is No Rain in Hell

2023