
Abdolhossein Sepanta
Directing
Biography
Abdolhossein Sepanta was a notable Iranian film director and producer in the early Iranian cinema era. He made the earliest sound films in the Persian language. He was also a writer and journalist and promoter of liberal politics.
Known For

Biopic on the classic Persian poet of the 11th century Ferdowsi, and the author of Shahnameh, which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian speaking countries.
Ferdowsi

Golnar is a young tea house waitress who was kidnapped as a child and taken to Lorestan with a clan of bandits living among the Lors. The leader of the thieves, Gholi Khan, is beginning to look at her with interest now she is a grown woman. Little did she know that a young man called Jafar is going to be just near.
Lor Girl

A Princess is forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart and forced to marry an emperor.
Shirin and Farhad

Based on the famous Layla and Majnun story.
Layla and Majnun

The story happens in Nader Shah era when he attacked India. At the very moment of the war in India and conquering Lahore, there is a romantic love going on between a girl and boy named Homa and Homayoun, which the war directly affects.