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Good To Be Back (2013 Film)
''Good to Be Back'' () is a 2013 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Dariush Mehrjui. Plot Dentist Farzad (Hamed Behdad) has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz ( Reza Attaran), who has been his seaside neighbor for years. Upon his arrival in the Iran, a mysterious quasi-space object appears and causes Dr. Yasmin and her magic stones to enter Farzad's life, which threatens Farzad and Kambiz long friendship. Cast * Hamed Behdad * Mahnaz Afshar * Reza Attaran * Alireza Jafari * Homayoun Ershadi * Roya Teymourian Roya Teymourian (, born 19 March 1959 in Tehran) is an Iranian actress. Selected filmography Film * ''Women's Prison'' * ''Gharch-e Sammi'' * '' Beed-e Majnoon'' (The Willow Tree, by Majid Majidi) * ''Kafe Setereh'' * ''Good to Be Back'' * ''Pol ... * Hasan Pourshirazi * Mohammad Kart * Ali Asghar Tabasi * Razieh Faraji References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariush Mehrjui
Dariush Mehrjui (; 8 December 1939 – 14 October 2023) was an Iranian filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts. Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s, which also included directors Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. His second film, ''The Cow'' (1969), is considered to be the first film of this movement. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays. On 14 October 2023, Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were found stabbed to death in their home in the city of Karaj, near Tehran. Early life and education Dariush Mehrjui was born on 8 December 1939 to a middle-class family in Tehran. He showed interest in painting miniatures, music, and playing santoor and piano. He spent a lot of time going to the movies, particularly American films which were un-dubbed and inter-spliced with explanatory title cards that explained the plot throughout the films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Dormishian
Reza Dormishian () is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and film producer. He has worked as assistant director with notable directors such as Dariush Mehrjui, Fereydoun Jeyrani, and Alireza Davood Nejad. Career He started writing as a film critic in 1997 for several newspapers. He later worked as an executive editor for cinema books and magazines. He was an assistant to some prestigious Iranian filmmakers, including Dariush Mehrjui and Alireza Davood Nejad. He has also worked as a screenwriter. He started making short films and documentaries in 2002. ''Hatred'' was his first feature film, produced independently in Istanbul. ''Hatred'' displays the frenzied love and hatred and two accounts from two phases in the life of an Iranian refugee couple in Istanbul, Turkey. The film was received well by critics and cinema writers and the Iranian critics gave it three awards (Best Directing, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing). Although ''Hatred'' was censored to be screened i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamed Behdad
Hamed Behdad (; born November 17, 1973) is an Iranian actor and singer. He has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards. He has won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival for his role in '' Castle of Dreams'' (2019). Early life Hamed Behdad was born on 17 November 1973 in Mashhad, Iran. He has lived his childhood and youth in Mashhad, Tehran, and Nishabur in a row. Behdad has returned to his hometown, Mashhad, again with his family when he was a high school freshman. He holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts Acting from Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Iran. Career Behdad was first introduced to Iran's Cinema with the movie, '' End of Game''. He was then, nominated for Crystal Simorgh in the Fajr Film Festival for the Best First Actor for this movie. In continue, he has been performing many memora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahnaz Afshar
Mahnaz Afshar (; born June 10, 1977) is an Iranian actress. She gained wide recognition in the record-breaking film Cease Fire (2006 film), ''Cease Fire'' (2006). Afshar is one of Iran's highest-paid actresses, She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, Crystal Cymorgh, two Hafez Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award. Life and career Afshar was born in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran, Imperial State of Iran. She graduated in natural science in high school. After graduation, one of her relatives who was the Theater Affairs Assistant in "Soureh" college introduced her to "Hannaneh" Art institute. Having studied video editions in the following years, she participated in the assembly job of "Ketāb-e Avval as a Golddigger" training materials, directed by Dariush Mehrjui. Later on, she was invited by Shamsi Fazlollahi to act in a TV series called Gomshodeh (Lost) directed by Masoud Navabi, making her first official play in the TV industry. Her prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Attaran
Reza Attaran ( Persian: رضا عطاران; born 10 May 1968) is an Iranian actor, director, screenwriter and singer. He has received various accolades, including three Crystal Simorgh, six Hafez Awards, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards. Early life Attaran was born in Mashhad on 10 May 1968. He has two older sisters and a younger brother and is the third child in the family. Attaran is originally from Kakhk. He lost his mother in an earthquake in Kakhk. He received a degree in economics in the Mashhad before moving to Tehran to study industrial design at the University of Tehran, faculty of Fine Arts. In 1982, he left his education unfinished to pursue a career in theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alireza Jafari
Alireza Jafari () is an Iranian actor born on April 25, 1994 Tehran, Iran. Career He started his career at the age of five and became known with the film ''Mum's Guest'' directed by Dariush Mehrjui. After that, he starred in many movies and series. His uncle, Amir Jafari, is a prominent Iranian actor and he has collaborated with many artists such as Golab Adineh, Elnaz Shakerdoost, Danial Hajibarat, Reza Attaran, Tannaz Tabatabaei and Tarlan Parvaneh.Alireza Jafari at ''Namnak''/ref> Filmography Film Web Television * ''Ferris wheel'' (TV series) directed by Aziz Allah Hamidnejad * '' Hasht Behesht'' (TV series) directed by Saeed Alemzadeh * '' The Accused Escaped'' (TV series) directed by Reza Attaran * ''Acacia Alley Acacia Alley (; ''Kocheh Aghaghia'') is an Iranian Drama and Comedy series. The series is directed by Reza Attaran. Storyline The series is about an old man who lives in his old house. His wife Golnesa died a few years ago, But he has been d ...'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homayoun Ershadi
Homayoun Ershadi (also spelled Homayon Ershadi, ; born March 26, 1947) is an Iranian actor. He is known for his debut role in '' Taste of Cherry'' (1997), and several Iranian and other films since then, including European films like ''Agora'' or Hollywood films like '' The Kite Runner'' and ''Zero Dark Thirty''. Early Life and education Homayoun Ershadi was born March 26, 1947 in Isfahan. He moved to Italy to study architecture at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, graduating in 1970. He worked in Iran as an architect, before moving to Canada in 1979, following the Iranian Revolution. He and his wife settled in Vancouver, where he continued work as an architect. Ershadi returned to Iran in 1990, after he and his wife filed for divorce. Career Following Ershadi return to Iran, he settled in Tehran. Ershadi was discovered by director Abbas Kiarostami, while sitting in his car in traffic. Kiarostami approached him and requested him to play the leading role of his film, '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roya Teymourian
Roya Teymourian (, born 19 March 1959 in Tehran) is an Iranian actress. Selected filmography Film * ''Women's Prison'' * ''Gharch-e Sammi'' * '' Beed-e Majnoon'' (The Willow Tree, by Majid Majidi) * ''Kafe Setereh'' * ''Good to Be Back'' * ''Polaris'' * ''Conjugal Visit'' * ''Leather Jacket'' TV Film * Love in Persian TV Series * ''Jeyran (TV series)'' * '' Tenth Night'' * ''Madare sefr darajeh ''Zero Degree Turn'' or ''Zero Degree Latitude'' ( ''Madâr-e sefr darajeh'') is a 2007 television series, made through the cooperation of Iran, Hungary, France, and Lebanon. The program was one of the most expensive and elaborate ever produced by ...'' (Zero Degree Turn) * ''Saate Sheni'' (sand clock) * ''Shamsolemareh'' * '' The Recall'' References External links * Roya TeymourianOn SourehCinema (in Persian) 1959 births Living people Actresses from Tehran Iranian film actresses Iranian stage actresses Iranian television actresses 20th-century Iranian actresses 21st- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasan Pourshirazi
Hasan Pourshirazi (; born March 1, 1958) is an Iranian actor. He received critical acclaim for his performances in films '' Mom's Guest'' (2004), ''The White Meadows'' (2009), ''The Oath'' (2019), and ''The Old Bachelor'' (2024). Early life Hasan Pourshirazi was born on March 1, 1958, in Shiraz, Fars, Iran. Filmography Film Web Television * 2017 Legionnaire * 2015 Loneliness of Leila * 2010 Mokhtarnameh ''Mokhtarnameh'' (, ) is an Iranian Persian history, historical Epic (genre), epic television series directed by Davood Mirbagheri, based on the life of Al-Mukhtar, a pro-Alids, Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led an islamic revolution agai ... * 2008 Nardebam-e Aseman * 2006 Nargess * 2002 Under the City's Skin References External links * 1958 births Living people Actors from Shiraz Iranian male film actors Iranian television directors Iranian male television actors {{Iran-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayedeh Safiyari
Hayedeh Safiyari (; born 27 June 1959) is an Iranian film editor and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She graduated in Art Cinema from a reputed University in Iran and decided to pursue her professional career in movie editing. Immediately after graduating from the university, she was recruited in the national TV of Iran. The majority of the edits she has carried out are for internationally well-known filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi, Bahram Beyzai, Bahman Ghobadi, Rakhshan Banietemad, Reza Dormishian, Alireza Raeesian, Shahram Alidi, and Pooran Derakhshande. She is best known for her long-time collaborations with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, including the Oscar-winning ''A Separation'' and '' The Salesman''. She has receive several precious awards namely, the Crystal Simorgh, the Statue of the Cinema House, Asian Film Award, Fajr film festival, Iran's film Critics & Writers Association; and Nominated for Cinema Writers Circle award and Goya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Rezai
Christophe Rezai (; born 1966 in Toulouse) is a French-Iranian composer living in Tehran since 1994. Career He was born from an Iranian Father and a French mother in 1966 in the city of Toulouse in France. He has studied music (piano, vocal and theory) along with engineering and marketing. Since 1987 he has recorded around 300 tracks for Iranian television advertisement. He has composed soundtracks for long film, short films as well as documentaries and has worked with director like Dariush Mehrjui, Mani Haghighi, Shahram Mokri, Safi Yazdanian, Rassoul Sadr Ameli and many others. He initiated a baroque music ensemble (Aria Music) in 1996, giving concerts in Iran & India. He further established the Nour ensemble. In the summer of 2004, Nour appeared in a musical documentary, this time filmed at the Palace of Ardashir in Firouzabad. The arrangements of Journey (2001, Hermes Records) is also among his musical activities. In 2003, Rezai won the first prize of the Avignon Film Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Films
The following tables list films released in 2013. Three popular films ('' Top Gun'', ''Jurassic Park'', and '' The Wizard of Oz'') were re-released in 3D and IMAX. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "The year 2013 has been an amazing one for movies, though maybe every year is an amazing year for movies if one is ready to be amazed by movies. It's also a particularly apt year to make a list of the best films. Making a list is not merely a numerical act but also a polemical one, and the best of this year's films are polemical in their assertion of the singularity of cinema, as well as of the art form's opposition to the disposable images of television. The 2013 crop comprises an unplanned, if not accidental, collective declaration of the essence of the cinema, an art of images and sounds that, at their best, don't exist to tell a story or to tantalize the audience (though they may well do so) but, rather, to reflect a crisis in the life of the filmm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
