Jahangir Almasi

Acting

Jahangir Almasi

Born

1950-03-21 (76)

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Djahangir Almasi (Persian: جهانگیر الماسی‎, born 21 March 1950 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian actor. He has played different roles in his career, but he is known mainly as an actor who plays serious and intellectual roles. He started his career with Stemming from Blood (1984) and has also directed a short film. Almasi was awarded with lifetime achievement award at 31st Fajr International Film Festival.

Known for

Dar Chashm-e Baad (In the Eye of the Wind) poster
1.0

An Iranian historical series narrating the Iranian history in a 60 year period from Jungle movement to Iranian revolution and Iraq-Iran War.

Dar Chashm-e Baad (In the Eye of the Wind)

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Hezar Dastan poster
7.2

Hezar-Dastan was an Iranian epic historical drama television series from 1987, developed and directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered one of the most important and most influential works of art in the history of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The production of the show took almost 8 years, starting in 1979 and ending in 1987, during which Hatami established a large set to represent Tehran in both Qajar dynasty and World War II, retroactively creating Iran's first movie studio and backlot (named Ghazali Cinema Town). The show tells the story of Reza Khoshnevis (also known as Reza Tofangchi), and his life and entanglement with corruption in government, and trying to correct it using not conventional means. The story is split into two section and it features Iran during the turbulent times of the latter days of Qajar Dynasty and during the events of World War II and Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.

Hezar Dastan

1988

Dinosaur poster
NR

This film is about a writer whose children are expelled from college for not paying their tuition, and when the landlord issues an eviction notice and the bank check he received from his producer is not cashed, he decides to take up arms and cash the check.

Dinosaur

2007

Digeh Che Khabar!? poster
8.0

The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.

Digeh Che Khabar!?

1992

The Rubble poster
NR

A wealthy man summons his sons and their wives to divide his inheritance among them before his death. While he is preaching to his children and daughters-in-law in the basement of the house, he dies, and at the same moment as his death, an earthquake blocks the exit from the basement.

The Rubble

1985

Pomegranate and Cane poster
6.6

Hunting for interesting elements for a play, a photographer meets an old man, who has just had a heart attack He tries to save the man's life. In an effort to determine the old man's identity, he is confronted with the old man nostalgic memories.

Pomegranate and Cane

1989

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1980s · 6 titles

Series credits