Hossein Parvaresh

  • Mohamad Reza Aalami – Noghteh Zaf aka Weak Spot (1983)

    1981-1990IranMohamad Reza AalamiThriller

    Based on novel by Antonis Samarakis (1919–2003)

    The masterpiece of the Greek writer Antonis Samarakis, To Lathos (The Flaw, 1965), was eerily prophetic of the military dictatorship that was shortly to be established in his native land. The novel, translated into English by Peter Mansfield and Richard Burns, in 1969, dealt with the fate of a suspect detained in an unspecified police state; a plan is devised to make him attempt to escape, thereby proving his guilt, or confess to his anti-state crimes under interrogation.Read More »

  • Bahram Beizai – Kalagh AKA The Raven (1977)

    1971-1980ArthouseBahram BeizaiDramaIran

    When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he tries to remember where he saw it before. His wife Asieh is a teacher and at home she writes his mother’s diary. When he searches for the address in that advertisement, he finds that it belongs to 30 years ago. Asieh is becoming interested in the missing girl too.Read More »

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