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At a busy Tehran crossroads, two former lovers meet by chance after fifteen years apart. Their encounter unfolds amid the disrupted lives of the city’s passersby and the damage wrought by political tyranny, commercialism, nationalism, and hypocrisy.
A Persian play about the death of Yazdgerd III, also described by its original subtitle as Regicide.
Four figures, identified as Red, Green, Yellow and Black, build a scarecrow to protect themselves from an unseen danger. Their creation gains power over them, exploiting their mutual distrust until each is confined in a separate box.
During the Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia, two generals dispute control of Kalat, which is ultimately conquered by the Alans.
Two impoverished villagers arrive in Tehran during the early demonstrations of the 1979 revolution and are hired to impersonate workers, party members, students and other groups at demonstrations; their unwittingly reactionary work leads to catastrophic consequences.
Returning to a war-torn city, Sindbad finds his wounded friend Nofal dying. Nofal urges him to seek a fabled golden jug of joy on Sarandib; Sindbad sets out with his sailors and resists calls to turn their search and hardship against one another.
A puppeteer presents the eternal struggle between Hero and Demon. Hero, weary of fighting, refuses to act until a fortune-teller warns of his death; he then slays the Demon and is mortally wounded, while the townspeople cannot lift his sword.
At a busy Tehran crossroads, two former lovers meet by chance after fifteen years apart. Their encounter unfolds amid the disrupted lives of the city’s passersby and the damage wrought by political tyranny, commercialism, nationalism, and hypocrisy.
A Persian play about the death of Yazdgerd III, also described by its original subtitle as Regicide.
Four figures, identified as Red, Green, Yellow and Black, build a scarecrow to protect themselves from an unseen danger. Their creation gains power over them, exploiting their mutual distrust until each is confined in a separate box.
During the Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia, two generals dispute control of Kalat, which is ultimately conquered by the Alans.
Two impoverished villagers arrive in Tehran during the early demonstrations of the 1979 revolution and are hired to impersonate workers, party members, students and other groups at demonstrations; their unwittingly reactionary work leads to catastrophic consequences.
Returning to a war-torn city, Sindbad finds his wounded friend Nofal dying. Nofal urges him to seek a fabled golden jug of joy on Sarandib; Sindbad sets out with his sailors and resists calls to turn their search and hardship against one another.
A puppeteer presents the eternal struggle between Hero and Demon. Hero, weary of fighting, refuses to act until a fortune-teller warns of his death; he then slays the Demon and is mortally wounded, while the townspeople cannot lift his sword.