Susan Taslimi

Acting

Susan Taslimi

Born 1950-02-07 · Rasht, Iran

Susan Taslimi (Persian: سوسن تسلیمی, born 7 February 1950) is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated to Sweden in 1987. Taslimi is the first non-European to play the lead role on a national theater stage in Sweden.

Acting credits

Black Crab poster
6.2

To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.

Black Crab

2022

Maybe Some Other Time poster
5.6

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 due to deep regrets regarding the child whom she has abandoned.

Maybe Some Other Time

1988

Death of Yazdgerd poster
7.8

A poetic imagining of the circumstances leading to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, remains mysterious: his corpse is discovered in a mill, but the cause of death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.

Death of Yazdgerd

1982

Bashu, the Little Stranger poster
7.4

During the Iran-Iraq War, young Bashu loses his home and family. Orphaned, he sneaks into a truck leaving the area, and gets off in the Northern country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, trying to raise her two young children on a farm while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences and a language barrier, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.

Bashu, the Little Stranger

1989

The Mare poster
6.0

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 mostly by Taslimi's increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter's freedom.

The Mare

1986

Ballad of Tara poster
7.1

Beautiful young widow Tara returns to her village with her two children from the country. On her way home, she learns that her grandfather has died, and distributes his belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one will accept. One day, on the road, Tara meets an ancient warrior, who claims that his clan have sent him to take the old sword back.

Ballad of Tara

1979

Wallander 22 - Angel of Death poster
4.5

A choir of young women gives a guest performance in a country church outside Ystad. But when an 18-year-old member of the choir disappears, Wallander is brought in to investigate.

Wallander 22 - Angel of Death

2010

The Charmer poster
6.5

A young Iranian man is desperately trying to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time runs out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him. The film deals with themes of race, class, and the struggle for a better life.

The Charmer

2018

Distant poster
NR

A documentary about Susan Taslimi, she's an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. Taslimi emigrated from Iran in 1987.

Distant

2019

Maya Nilo (Laura) poster
5.7

Nilo is a feminist writer, living an orderly life with her husband and 13-year-old daughter Laura. When her irresponsible sister Maya, whose projects constantly tend to bomb, both "kidnaps" Nilo's Volvo and daughter and heads south, Nilo tags along. The goal of the trip is Portugal, where the sisters’ complicated mother recently diagnosed with cancer lives, together with Maya’s son, who it has finally become time to take responsibility for.

Maya Nilo (Laura)

2022

The Spell poster
8.5

A young couple accept an arranged marriage to stop the fighting between their respective clans. On the way home from their wedding, they get lost in a dark forest on a stormy night. They take refuge in an eerie mansion, inhabited by an old man obsessed with the past, and his creepy servant. As the night progresses, they learn the terrible secrets hidden in the house. Similar to many other films in this genre, with a few interesting plot turns.

The Spell

1987

Bahram Beyzaie: A Mosaic of Metaphors poster
NR

A documentary film by Bahman Maghsoodloo about Bahram Bayzaei and his cinema, released in 2019. Maghsoodloo's conversations with Bayzaei in this film were recorded in Tehran in 2002 and Palo Alto in 2017.

Bahram Beyzaie: A Mosaic of Metaphors

2019

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses poster
2.8

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses

2016

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Grænsen

1995

Först när givaren är död poster
NR

In the middle of the Medieval fair in Visby the house of a 70-year-old woman is set on fire, and she is presumed dead. When another murder occurs Maria Wern and her police colleagues head for a picturesque summer town where everybody knows each other - and where the discovery of several Latin texts and incomprehensible drawings makes the police suspect that all the events have something to do with the medieval fair.

Först när givaren är död

2013

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