Hossein Mahjoub
Birthday: Born in 1948-08-01 in Rasht, Iran
Deathday: Alive
Hossein Mahjoub (حسین محجوب) was born in the city of Rasht in northern Iran. He studied literature in high school and later took different acting classes with a number of famous actors and directors. He made his film debut in Bahram Beizaee's Downpour. This talented actor has starred in many movies and TV series including On the Way to Zayandeh Rood
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در مسیر زایندهرود
Character: Malek Mansour
A young football player named Mehran Sarang is going to Isfahan to sign a contract with an Isfahanian club (F.C.) and inadvertently kills a young Isfahan named Masoud Mosayeb, a cultural activist, in an accident. The story continues in this incident that......
افسانۀ سلطان و شبان
Character: Roustaei
One evening in a grand royal palace, a frivolous and grotesque sultan has a nightmare. The great diviner concludes that on a full moon evening arrows of doom will fall on his head. Frightened, the sultan feels discomfort and falls ill in bed......
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Baran
Character: Soltan
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives....
The Color of Paradise
Character: Hashem
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammed over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammed's father eventually takes him home....
Silent Glory
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Shahi received the award for the portrayal of Rohan, a 35-year-old woman who agrees to marry Mahi, an old man who had been the village teacher for many years. Mahi is now the caretaker of the village shrine in whose healing power he does not believe. Rohan begins her new life in a small room in the shrine. She meets a young boy who has taken refuge in the sanctuary of the shrine to be healed. When the boy dies suddenly, Rohan loses all her beliefs like her husband. The fanatic villagers do not t...
I'm Taraneh, 15
Character: Father
Taraneh is a model 15-year-old Iranian girl, studious and filial, who supports her ailing grandmother with a job at a photo shop and visits her father (who has been imprisoned for reasons never made clear in the film) bearing gifts of cigarettes and magazines. But when Amir, a young man from a well-off family, sets his sights on Taraneh and courts her with an intensity that borders on stalking, her well-ordered life spirals into chaos....
The Mare
Character: Rahmat
Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mo...
Maybe Some Other Time
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Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother, who gives up one child out of fear of poverty, then deprives the other of affection because she deeply regrets the child whom she has abandoned....
God Will Come
Character: father
Would God answer a letter for help?...
Khibula
Character: Zviad Gamsakhurdia / Mr. President
The screenplay for Khibula was inspired by the real events taking place in Georgia briefly after the country regained its independence in 1991. Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first president of Georgia, elected by the majority of votes, was driven into exile by coup d'etat. Even though he returned to regain power soon after, political clashes once again forced him to flee into the mountains. Based on the final chapter of the first President's life, the film starts off by following his journey accompani...
The Dream of Water
Character: The Old Man
After the breakdown of his car in the desert, a young man who works for the water supply organization reaches an abandoned village. With the help of an old man who is also the remaining inhabitant of that region, he goes down the aqueduct. The old man's condition to get him out is finding the spring that he believes is hidden somewhere beneath the ground....
Tradition of Lover Killing
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A wood smuggler is arrested by the police. His family should pay the debts while he is in the prison....
The Kingdom of Solomon
Character: Asif ibn Barkhiya
Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men....
Persian Gulf
Character: Narrator
The documentary examines the Persian Gulf and the surrounding islands in terms of geography, economy, history, and the customs and traditions of the people of those areas....
The Legend of the King and the Shepherd
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One evening in a grand royal palace, a frivolous and grotesque sultan has a nightmare. The great diviner concludes that on a full moon evening arrows of doom will fall on his head. Frightened, the sultan feels discomfort and falls ill in bed......