
Acting
Mahmoud Pakniat
Born
1952-12-31 (73)
Place of birth
Kazerun, Iran
Known for
Acting
Credits
24 titles
Mahmoud Pakniat is an actor who was born in 1952 in Kazeron, Iran. He started his career in television and starred in “Nasim Hoot” series directed by Majid Jafari and Ali Asghar Mirzaei in 1983. His most notable activities are “Heartbroken” by Ali Rooyintan, “Pedar Salar” series by Akbar Khajoui, “Shahrzad” series by Hasan Fathi and “Paria” series directed by Hossein Soheilizadeh.
Known for
7.6This story basically follows the most important happenings in Prophet Josephs life, from the view of muslims. The most important happenings are: 1. his travel to egypt 2. his rise and growing up in Egypt 3. his life problems when his "owner" Zuleikha falls in love with him and wants him to return the love to him. 4. his stay in prison, and how he reforms the prisoners. 5. his return by the side of the Pharao. 6. his uprising to the side of the pharao as his advisor. 7. his brothers coming to egypt, and how he decides to make them regret their mistakes so they can receive forgivness, and peace. 8. his reunion with his family after more than 20 years.
Prophet Joseph
2009
9.0A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
Shahrzad
2015
5.0On the night of his wife's birthday, Dr. Shoka Mehrjui encounters mysterious events, including the disappearance of one of their neighbors. A major named Behrouz Sharifi notices the connection between this story and the disappearance of other people and comes up with clues that gradually lead the case to a complicated and unusual path.
Azaazil
2025
7.0A popular bandit, Morad, is robbing trade caravans. During a fight with another bandit, he has been rescued from death by the rural family. He takes a profound challenge in his life with these villagers.
Once Upon a Time
1991
1.0An 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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NRThis series tells the story of three couples who are related by family, and different stories and adventures with a common theme are presented in each episode, and these three stories eventually reach a common conclusion.
Haft Sang
2014
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
1.5An author who couldn't get his book printed due to censorship, gets an opportunity to write a bestseller after a chance meeting.
Mr. Censor
2020
NRNoushin has returned to Iran after years, upon a request by her severely ill father to find a person that he needs to see. Her father finds this visit the most important duty of his life before passing away. Sheen is about a family secret that has been kept for many years. Shirin, the house maid’s daughter while playing with the owners’ children in the old house, falls in the well in the middle of the yard. Her body was never recovered. Her mother was pushed out of the house. They covered the well and abandoned the house. The family members encountered many unfortunate events throughout the years and didn’t have a happy life. They have returned to ask for forgiveness from a woman who lost her child.
Sheen
2020
2010s · 3 titles
6.3Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.
The Kingdom of Solomon
2010
NRMahia and Reza are a young couple shortly planning to marry. Reza is an architectural engineer and Mahia is his student. An accident in the neighbourhood takes place that changes the course of both their lives.
Calm Breaths
2017
NRSome friends want to have a party at home, meanwhile a clergyman enters the house.
The Last Thursday of the Month
2012
2000s · 3 titles
10.0The story follows Joseph's journey from being sold by his brothers to Egypt, his trials in Potiphar's house, imprisonment, rise to power interpreting dreams, reunion with his family after proving his brothers' remorse.
Prophet Joseph
2008
7.4Siavash, a young man burdened by the mysterious suicide of his father, finds himself entangled in a web of family intrigue. His uncle, managing his father’s estate, seeks to marry Siavash’s mother, a union Siavash vehemently opposes. Amidst this turmoil, Siavash’s love for his cousin Mahtab, whose father is his uncle’s councillor, complicates matters further. As the day of the union approaches, Siavash is struck by a profound realisation: his life bears a striking resemblance to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This revelation ignites a series of questions, challenging his understanding of the true nature of his father’s death.
Doubt
2009
6.1On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart.
Deserted Station
2002
1990s · 3 titles
5.9Khosro Paziresh, poor inventor of a magical washing powder went to see the CEO to manufacture his invention But accidentally fell into the elevator shaft.
The Changed Man
1998
3.5Neda who believes in money rather than love leaves her fiance Farhad and marries an older wealthy man Foruzesh on condition that he gives her all his fortune. But when she goes to Kish Island for her honeymoon the bitter truth is revealed for her.
Eve's Red Apple
1999
NRWith the beginning of Iran-Iraqi war a hospital in Khoramshar is surrounded by the Iraqi army and is being attacked from both land and sky. Jahan Ara the young leader of the Iranians wants the injures and the rest of the women and doctors to get out of the hospital with an ambulance. But in the way the Iraqis attack them and some getting killed and few are saved. The few rescued people scatter around the city not finding the way to the Iranian's side. Among them is the driver of the ambulance, doctor Kasra, a widow, a captain, a man who constantly think of surrendering to the Iraqis so he can save his money, and a nurse Hanieh who brought two infants with herself. An Iraqi officer who has been captured is with them too.
Land of the Sun
1996
Series credits
7.6This story basically follows the most important happenings in Prophet Josephs life, from the view of muslims. The most important happenings are: 1. his travel to egypt 2. his rise and growing up in Egypt 3. his life problems when his "owner" Zuleikha falls in love with him and wants him to return the love to him. 4. his stay in prison, and how he reforms the prisoners. 5. his return by the side of the Pharao. 6. his uprising to the side of the pharao as his advisor. 7. his brothers coming to egypt, and how he decides to make them regret their mistakes so they can receive forgivness, and peace. 8. his reunion with his family after more than 20 years.
Prophet Joseph
2009
9.0A romantic historical drama set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
Shahrzad
2015
5.0On the night of his wife's birthday, Dr. Shoka Mehrjui encounters mysterious events, including the disappearance of one of their neighbors. A major named Behrouz Sharifi notices the connection between this story and the disappearance of other people and comes up with clues that gradually lead the case to a complicated and unusual path.
Azaazil
2025
7.0A popular bandit, Morad, is robbing trade caravans. During a fight with another bandit, he has been rescued from death by the rural family. He takes a profound challenge in his life with these villagers.
Once Upon a Time
1991
1.0An 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)
—
NRThis series tells the story of three couples who are related by family, and different stories and adventures with a common theme are presented in each episode, and these three stories eventually reach a common conclusion.
Haft Sang
2014
6.5After the Rain is an Iranian television series produced for IRIB TV3 created by Saeed Soltani. This film is about a story in Reza Shah era
Pas Az Baran
2000
NRThe story takes place in the two-star Morvarid Hotel and depicts the adventures of its employees with each other and the hotel's passengers. Each part of the series has a number of guest actors who play the role of hotel guests and have adventures in the city of Tehran.
Hotel
1999
NRMr. Abdullah is a benevolent and kind man who owns an old printing house. In addition to supporting his brother Kamal, he also takes care of Yousef, a young man who lost all his family members in the earthquake, and Mr. Abdullah is saving money for his future. After starting work at the printing house, Yousef faces problems from those around him and jealousy in the workplace; events that affect the course of his life and those around him.
Fekr-e Palid
1998
This series is a story set in the 1340s and has an episodic structure. The protagonist is a teenage boy named Kamal. The series is set in Ghazali town and has a humorous and nostalgic atmosphere.
Hekayathaye Kamal (2019)
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"Mr. Abu Saeidi" (played by Mahmoud Pakneit) has bought a hotel on Kish Island, but the hotel is not doing very well because there is a clean, friendly, and inexpensive restaurant next door called "The Sidewalk Hotel" that attracts customers. In fact, the hotel's customers only use it as a place to sleep and,..
Hotel Piadero
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It is a bitter and realistic drama centered on the struggle of revolutionary youth against the terrorist group of the MKO. The 1960s, with its widespread assassinations, bombings, security infiltrations, and bloody clashes in cities, is the setting for a fiery drama; a setting that has rarely been dealt with in dramatic formats with such clarity and boldness.A summary of the series' plot states: "Don't you see what they did to our brothers? Where in the world do you know, where does history remember, that they would scalp a human being?" This sentence not only refers to the merciless violence of the hypocrites, but also depicts the atmosphere of the series.
Engineering Operation
2025
The story of the series Khat is about the individual and social ethics of people and narrates the path of a person named Siavash Salar, who undergoes a transformation after meeting a girl named Sogand and under the cover of Haj Rauf's school.
Khat
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