Alireza Shojanoori

Acting

Alireza Shojanoori

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Alireza Shojanoori (Born: 1955) is a producer and actor, known for Shir Sangi (1987), Yek rouz bishtar (2000) and Sandali khali (2008).

Known for

Muhammad: The Messenger of God poster
6.6

Abousofyan tells Aboutaleb, Muhammad's uncle, that in the upcoming morning he wants to kill the holy prophet of Islam and Muslims, who are in boycott. Aboutaleb remembers the past years when Abraha charges ahead Mecca to ruin the house of God. but by God's will his army loses out against millions of small birds sent by GOD. A month later, Muhammad is born.

Muhammad: The Messenger of God

2015

Bab'Aziz poster
7.2

The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.

Bab'Aziz

2006

The Fateful Day poster
7.4

As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.

The Fateful Day

1995

Davandeye Zamin poster
NR

The Earth Marathon

Davandeye Zamin

2010

The Wind Carpet poster
6.3

Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic city in mountainous area of Honsyu. A man planned to resume the carpet in the festival, and asked Kinue, a Persian carpet designer, to design it. Kinue's husband, Makoto, is a carpet importer. They send the design to Iran to weave the carpet. But just before Makoto goes to Iran to receive the carpet, Kinue dies of a traffic accident. A month before the festival, Makoto went to Isphahan, Iran, to receive the carpet. He brings his daughter Sakura, who does not open her heart after she lost her mother. To surprise, the carpet production has not even started. It will take 3 months from the start. For Makoto it means he betrays not only the festival planners but also his late wife.

The Wind Carpet

2003

Salman the Persian poster
NR

A series about Salman Farsi, an Iranian companion of the Prophet of Islam.

Salman the Persian

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Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Bab'Aziz poster
7.2

The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.

Bab'Aziz

2006

Davandeye Zamin poster
NR

The Earth Marathon

Davandeye Zamin

2010

The Wind Carpet poster
6.3

Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic city in mountainous area of Honsyu. A man planned to resume the carpet in the festival, and asked Kinue, a Persian carpet designer, to design it. Kinue's husband, Makoto, is a carpet importer. They send the design to Iran to weave the carpet. But just before Makoto goes to Iran to receive the carpet, Kinue dies of a traffic accident. A month before the festival, Makoto went to Isphahan, Iran, to receive the carpet. He brings his daughter Sakura, who does not open her heart after she lost her mother. To surprise, the carpet production has not even started. It will take 3 months from the start. For Makoto it means he betrays not only the festival planners but also his late wife.

The Wind Carpet

2003

Five Dedicated to Ozu poster
5.9

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.

Five Dedicated to Ozu

2003

Farda poster
9.0

Izawa is a Japanese manufacturing workshop he has relationship with the workshop owner's daughter. At the request of his fiance he is forced to travel to Iran to find Mehdi, a former factory worker in Iran.

Farda

2002

Strangers poster
8.0

Kaveh, a young man from America, walks the roads of southern Iran searching for Dehdari, his recently deceased and estranged father's childhood home. He happens upon Abdul Reza, a thirty-year-old truck driver plagued by financial hardships and family responsibilities, who is fixing his truck by the side of the road. Kaveh hires Abdul as his guide, and together these two strangers embark on a three-day journey that leads them from a tiny village to an ancient graveyard and in search of a murderer. A journey of conflicts and juxtapositions that forces Kaveh deeper into the past, towards peace and forgiveness.

Strangers

2000

Empty Chair poster
NR

Esmaeil Fallah and his wife Marziyeh, who is also his cousin and pregnant, are worried about their child and they go to a doctor. The doctor tells them that the child is blind, deaf and mute and it would be a torture to keep him...

Empty Chair

2008