Ahmad Shamlou

Writing

Ahmad Shamlou

Born 1925-12-12 · Tehran, Iran

Ahmad Shamlou was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Never Without Love poster
NR

Mehran meets Safar in a café, and Safar, on behalf of his boss Qobad, suggests to Mehran that they kill Master Nouri and his daughter Mojgan in their hunting ground. When Mehran reaches "Sheitan-Kooh", he falls into a deep pit and Mojgan saves him and takes him to their house and bandages his wounds.

Never Without Love

1966

The Strong Man poster
6.5

A rich guy's driver who wants to help a poor girl who work in a cabaret introduces her as his master's fiance. She falls in love with the master without knowing his real identity. This leads all of them to face many funny adventures.

The Strong Man

1960

Stigma poster
NR

A pilot, who has a wife and a son, goes on a mission, and his plane crashes due to an accident. He is injured and suffers from amnesia. A gypsy girl named Fetneh nurses him; but according to the tribe's custom and Sattar's decision, Fetneh is tortured for helping a stranger and is branded with a mark of shame. Fetneh escapes and goes to the pilot. Sattar grapples with the pilot, and Fetneh injures him with a knife. After that, the pilot, whom people call Khodadad, gets into a fight with a grocer named Hossein, who intends to assault Fetneh, and steals his money. Soon, Khodadad becomes the most wicked rebel in the region, and his son is assigned by the government to wipe out Khodadad and his men. Father and son confront each other, and Khodadad is killed. Fetneh is also shot dead by a young man who loves her.

Stigma

1965

Stigma poster
NR

A pilot, who has a wife and a son, goes on a mission, and his plane crashes due to an accident. He is injured and suffers from amnesia. A gypsy girl named Fetneh nurses him; but according to the tribe's custom and Sattar's decision, Fetneh is tortured for helping a stranger and is branded with a mark of shame. Fetneh escapes and goes to the pilot. Sattar grapples with the pilot, and Fetneh injures him with a knife. After that, the pilot, whom people call Khodadad, gets into a fight with a grocer named Hossein, who intends to assault Fetneh, and steals his money. Soon, Khodadad becomes the most wicked rebel in the region, and his son is assigned by the government to wipe out Khodadad and his men. Father and son confront each other, and Khodadad is killed. Fetneh is also shot dead by a young man who loves her.

Stigma

1965

The Girl of the Mountain poster
NR

The village headman's daughter and the landlord's daughter are both smitten with a young engineer. After some drama, the landlord's daughter finally puts an end to the problem. She pretends to be frivolous so that the young engineer distances himself from her and gets closer to the headman's daughter, even though she loves the engineer and suffers from losing him.

The Girl of the Mountain

1963

Jack of all Trades poster
NR

A criminal group intends to murder a girl, but a young man saves her. The girl is the daughter of a wealthy man, and after his wife's death, the father married a widow. The girl's stepmother, a young woman, plotted the girl's murder to inherit her husband's wealth herself. With the young man's presence in the girl's life, the stepmother's plan becomes impossible to execute until the family's father is killed in an accident, and the woman stages the scene to make it appear that the young man committed the murder. The police, based on the evidence, pursue the young man and his friend. The girl decides to help the young man. Eventually, it turns out that the killer is the victim's brother, whom everyone thought had died. With the discovery of the truth, the young man's innocence is proven, and he begins a life together with the girl.

Jack of all Trades

1965

Escapism poster
NR

A middle-aged doctor and his young assistant are both smitten with a girl. The girl likes the doctor's assistant, but the doctor, who is deeply in love with the girl, sends the assistant away on some pretext. He then gets closer to the girl and, with the support of her parents, marries her. They have a peaceful life until the assistant returns and the truth comes out. After a series of events, it's ultimately the doctor who steps aside.

Escapism

1966

Dead End poster
8.5

Iraj, a journalist photographer, meets Pari in Paris. He returns to Iran and marries Azar. He later gets into trouble and gets entangled in further conspiracies devised by Pari.

Dead End

1965

The Cobweb poster
7.3

Iraj is a young photographer who meets Fariba. Fariba, who pretends to have a lot of money, lives by burglary.

The Cobweb

1963