Esmail Koushan

Production

Esmail Koushan

Born 1917-01-01 · Tehran, Iran

Esmail Koushan (Persian: اسماعیل کوشان‎) (1917-1981) was an Iranian film director who was one of the pioneering figures of Persian cinema. He was one of the first active figures in the Second Filmmaking Period (post 1945) there he has been called "the father of the Iranian film industry" by Georges Sadoul. Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Persian. He then set up the Mitrafilm company, which produced his first feature film in 1948, The Storm of Life. He directed more than 20 and produced more than 50 movies during the years. He died in 1981.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Zendani Amir poster
7.0

Directed by Esmail Kushan.

Zendani Amir

1948

Zendani Amir poster
7.0

Directed by Esmail Kushan.

Zendani Amir

1948

The Right Way poster
5.0

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up becoming the manager of the company, as well as winning Meltem's love. However, this is not to the liking of his cousin Cihangir and his father, who instead are totally broke and want to get their revenge on Ali.

The Right Way

1970

The Right Way poster
5.0

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up becoming the manager of the company, as well as winning Meltem's love. However, this is not to the liking of his cousin Cihangir and his father, who instead are totally broke and want to get their revenge on Ali.

The Right Way

1970

Ghoroube botparastan poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ghoroube botparastan

1968

Ghoroube botparastan poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ghoroube botparastan

1968

Jabbar, Runaway Sergeant poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jabbar, Runaway Sergeant

1973

Nasim-e ayyar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nasim-e ayyar

1967

Nasim-e ayyar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nasim-e ayyar

1967

Sheikh Saleh poster
NR

1322 Islamic Calendar year; Iran before the constitutional revolution. People have formed a revolutionary committee to fight Khan. Cossack brigades are torturing and executing people, and Sheikh Saleh and his brother Esrafil with the help of an old man named Khajeh Isaa are prepared to fight against Khan and his steward Hollakoo.

Sheikh Saleh

1973

Twins poster
NR

1934. A barber is suffering from high prices and his difficult situation. He has eleven children, and his pregnant wife gives birth to twins. The man, who believes in the bad luck of the number thirteen, leaves one of the twins in the car of a young couple, unaware that his thirteenth child has remained with him. The young couple adopts the baby and takes it to Abadan.

Twins

1959

Kolah Makhmali (velvet-hatted) poster
NR

A velvet-hatted ruffian is released from prison and vows to stay away from illegal activities and be a good person.

Kolah Makhmali (velvet-hatted)

1962

Kolah Makhmali (velvet-hatted) poster
NR

A velvet-hatted ruffian is released from prison and vows to stay away from illegal activities and be a good person.

Kolah Makhmali (velvet-hatted)

1962

Snake Fangs poster
NR

A simple mine worker meets and gets to know his boss's daughter. This acquaintance later deepens and turns into love. The mine owner's foreman, who intends to seize the master's wealth, opposes this relationship and tries to create discord with intrigues. Finally, the truth is revealed, and he loses his life in one of his own plots.

Snake Fangs

1961

Snake Fangs poster
NR

A simple mine worker meets and gets to know his boss's daughter. This acquaintance later deepens and turns into love. The mine owner's foreman, who intends to seize the master's wealth, opposes this relationship and tries to create discord with intrigues. Finally, the truth is revealed, and he loses his life in one of his own plots.

Snake Fangs

1961

The Millionaire Beggar poster
NR

Three friends, "Farhad," "Reza," and "Ahmad," make a pact in childhood to meet each other twenty years later—in the spring of 1973. By 1974, Reza has become a pickpocket, Farhad is a millionaire, and Ahmad is a police officer. Farhad can inherit his father's vast wealth only if he reconciles with his wife, "Christine," but he is unwilling to do so. Therefore, he attempts to steal the will and, during a struggle, ends up killing the lawyer. The evidence points to Reza as the murderer. Ahmad is assigned to investigate the case...

The Millionaire Beggar

1973

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar poster
NR

The adventures of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's life before ascending to the throne until his assassination by a Georgian, including his encounter with Sohrab, who is in love with one of the Qajar princesses.

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar

1954

Mah Pishooni poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mah Pishooni

1971

Tears and Laughters poster
NR

A Lost Persian Film. Javad Shadi, who is in charge of a joy caravan, murders his wife Setareh because of her secret lifestyle and association with a vagrant and is sentenced to life imprisonment. He gives his daughter Roya to a traveling singer named Gholam Hossein. Javad is released after fifteen years and returns to his hometown of Rudbar. Gholam Hossein, who entrusts Roya to a wealthy family a year after Javad's imprisonment, gives Javad the address of Amir Afzal. Javad goes to Amir Afzal and his wife and agrees to give up his paternal rights in exchange for his daughter's happiness. Javad finds out that Jamshid Mehrdad, Roya's fiancé, is an unemployed young man with a wife and two children. Javad arranges for Roya to marry Kamran, Roya's music teacher; But Roya hurts Javad due to a misunderstanding, and Javad continues his life in anonymity. Kamran tells Roya the truth of the incident, and the two find Javad and bring him back home.

Tears and Laughters

1964

Tears and Laughters poster
NR

A Lost Persian Film. Javad Shadi, who is in charge of a joy caravan, murders his wife Setareh because of her secret lifestyle and association with a vagrant and is sentenced to life imprisonment. He gives his daughter Roya to a traveling singer named Gholam Hossein. Javad is released after fifteen years and returns to his hometown of Rudbar. Gholam Hossein, who entrusts Roya to a wealthy family a year after Javad's imprisonment, gives Javad the address of Amir Afzal. Javad goes to Amir Afzal and his wife and agrees to give up his paternal rights in exchange for his daughter's happiness. Javad finds out that Jamshid Mehrdad, Roya's fiancé, is an unemployed young man with a wife and two children. Javad arranges for Roya to marry Kamran, Roya's music teacher; But Roya hurts Javad due to a misunderstanding, and Javad continues his life in anonymity. Kamran tells Roya the truth of the incident, and the two find Javad and bring him back home.

Tears and Laughters

1964

Morgh-e-Hamsayeh poster
NR

Zhaleh and his brother Esmaeel are tenants in a house. On the one hand, Jamshid , the local butcher, and on the other hand, the eye-catching man and a young student named Hasan prepare themselves to propose to Zhaleh. Esmaeel is in debt and the eye-catching man saves him from the creditors and promises to pay his debt on the condition of marrying Zhaleh ...

Morgh-e-Hamsayeh

1974

Yusuf and Zulaikha poster
7.5

The brothers of Yusuf (Joseph), jealous of their father Yaqub’s (Jacob's) love for him, throw him into a well. A caravan rescues Yusuf, and years later he is sold as a slave in the market of Egypt. Zulaikha, Yusuf's owner, falls in love with him, and after an incident, the Aziz of Egypt (Zulaikha’s husband) has him imprisoned. Seven years later, Yusuf is released due to his interpretation of the Pharaoh’s dream and rises to the rank of Aziz of Egypt.

Yusuf and Zulaikha

1968

The Sleeping Lion poster
8.0

The actions of the Russian and British embassies and the security forces of the central forces have made the people miserable. Mahmoud Khan, who is the secretary of the British Embassy, resigns from his job in the British Embassy and joins the people and incites them against the British and the Central Powers ...

The Sleeping Lion

1977

Arshin Mal Alan poster
8.0

A father plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy old man, but she is in love with a cloth peddler

Arshin Mal Alan

1960