3 Movies Starring Ali Nassirian

The Cow

The Cow

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-12-01

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (3868 Reviews)

Director:

Dariush Mehrjui

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Dariush Mehrjui

Gholam-Hossein Saedi (play)

Fullplot:

Masht Hassan owns the only cow in a remote and desolate village. He treats the cow as his own child. When he is away, his cow dies. Knowing the relationship between Masht Hassan and his cow, the villagers hastily dispose the corpse, and when Masht Hassan comes back, they tell him that his cow ran away. Masht Hassan is devastated, he starts to spend all his time in the barn, eating hay, and slowly believes that he is the cow.

Iron Island

Iron Island

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-10-05

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (479 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Squatters, mostly Arabs in Persia, live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children. Captain Nemat runs things with an iron hand, orienting new residents, keeping the books, negotiating with new buyers who may want to scrap the ship, arranging things, keeping discipline. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

Iron Island

Iron Island

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-10-05

Languages:

Persian

Countries:

Iran

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (476 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Squatters, mostly Arabs in Persia, live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children. Captain Nemat runs things with an iron hand, orienting new residents, keeping the books, negotiating with new buyers who may want to scrap the ship, arranging things, keeping discipline. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

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