Esmaeil Khalaj

Acting

Esmaeil Khalaj

Born

1936-01-01 (90)

Place of birth

Astara, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

10 titles

Esmaeil Khalaj is an Iranian playwright and film and television writer, director, and actor. He was born in Astara, but went to Tehran and studied acting under the Iranian acting teacher and director, Abdolhossein Noushin. He started to write plays in the 1970s.

Known for

Shahriar poster
3.0

A television series about Mohammadhossein Shariar's life, directed by Kamal Tabrizi, aired on IRIB channel 2.

Shahriar

2007

Modest Reception poster
6.5

An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.

Modest Reception

2013

The Spring poster
6.0

A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When he realizes the woman's affection for a young libertine with whom she is secretly meeting in an abandoned house, he commits suicide. When the local women, out of jealousy, expose her, she also ends her life. Her husband buries her body in the abandoned bathhouse. The young libertine, driven to madness, wanders into the desert.

The Spring

1973

There's Always a Woman in Between poster
3.3

A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people are intervening.

There's Always a Woman in Between

2008

Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother poster
7.4

A young playwright and director wants to write and perform a historical drama about faith in the Ashkani period of Iran. There is an incongruity between the man's personal life, and his quest to pursue and present history. The woman who lives with him believes he should not neglect their relationship when embarking on such a quest. The people who work with the playwright believe the play ought to be made popular to satisfy the public. Finally, this matter makes the playwright perform the play all by himself.

Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother

1976

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It is the story of "Hajj Mohammad Ali Zahedi" (known as Mandali), who has preserved the tradition of reciting Ta'ziyyah in Bastam for years. As his death nears on the eve of the month of Muharram, he leaves behind a will that brings his children together and causes deep financial and ideological differences between them.

Yalda

2013

Film credits

1970s · 2 titles

Series credits