Ezzatollah Entezami

Acting

Ezzatollah Entezami

Born 1924-01-01 · Tehran, Iran

Ezzatolah Entezami (also spell Ezatollah Entezami, born 1924 in Tehran, Iran) was an award-winning Iranian actor. Graduated from theater and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in 1958, Entezami started his career on stage in 1941. He has been acting in movies since 1969. His debut performance in Darius Mehrjui's admired classic film, The Cow(Gaav), received the Golden Hugo in Chicago International Film Festival in 1971. He shined in the role of a naive villager who cannot endure the death of his beloved cow and starts to believe that he is the cow himself. He is known as one of the most prominent actors in Iranian cinema and has been labeled as the greatest actor in history of the cinema of Iran. He has worked with most of the prominent Iranian film directors, including Darius Mehrjui (eight films), Ali Hatami (four films), Nasser Taqvaee, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Behrouz Afkhami and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. He has been awarded the Crystal Simorgh for the Best Actor twice from the International Fajr Film Festival, for Grand Cinema and The Day of Angel. His work and accomplishments were recognized in October 2006 at the Iran cultural center in Paris.

Acting credits

Hajji Washington poster
5.6

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassador to the United States of America. After he opens the embassy, he is unable to invite statesmen to visit him. Haji fires the embassy staff due to the inability of the Persian government to meet the embassy's needs. One night he is visited by President Grover Cleveland.

Hajji Washington

1983

Takhti poster
4.3

Ali Hatami's film on the life of Iranian wrestling champion Takhti remains unfinished. Another director is assigned by the I.R. Intelligence Ministry to finish the project. The new director wants to carry out research on the life of the champion, and it would seem that he will have to solve numerous problems before he can finish the job.

Takhti

1997

The Postman poster
6.6

A political metaphor based on Buchner's "Woyzeck": a simpleminded mailman ends up committing a murder.

The Postman

1972

Sattar Khan poster
7.5

Based on the true story of the Azari war hero, Satar Khan, during the time of the Constitutional Revolution. The story follows Satar and Heidar as they join another hero Bagher Khan.

Sattar Khan

1972

Kamalolmolk poster
7.2

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Kamalolmolk

1984

To be a Star poster
NR

Pooneh Golkar who is an actor of minor roles, wants to be a star. Her father is a theater actor of the old times who is paralyzed resting at home. She provides for a short but influential role playing by her father. When the old man appears at the shooting location, he discovers a bitter truth that his young daughter is ready to do anything to be a famous star. Finding about this and also encountering the woman who has rejected him years ago in dream of playing a leading role, he looses his self-confidence to act in front of the camera and this causes him to be fired.

To be a Star

2005

Eye of the Hurricane poster
7.0

During the Second World War and the occupation of Iran by the Allied army, Dr. Rastan goes to Ih Qashqai to treat his sister's husband. There, he is introduced to Amir Houshang, the elders of the tribal elders, and Ghobad's rebels. He returns to Shiraz. His younger brother, Ali, has been thrown into the city, and ...

Eye of the Hurricane

1989

The Teacher without Master poster
NR

The Teacher without Master

The Teacher without Master

2016

Shirak poster
6.5

Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars. When his father is mauled to death by the boars during an attack on one of the village fields, Shirak suddenly finds himself the head of the household. Determined to hunt down the dangerous animals and kill them, he picks dates in order to be able to purchase a watchdog from one of the local villagers. Together, Shirak and his dog confront the beasts when they attack the village.

Shirak

1988

Colors of Memory poster
NR

The film relates the story of a surgeon (Doctor Pārsā) who returns to Iran after living in Germany for 33 years. Arriving in Tehran, Doctor Pārsā performs a heart operation on the nephew of the family friend Mr Ghanāti. Mr Ghanāti urges him to travel with him to his home town, Bam. On the trip, they drive past the rubble and destruction and Pārsā remembers back to his childhood.[citation needed]

Colors of Memory

2008

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

The School We Went To poster
5.0

Students of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.

The School We Went To

1980

Twilight poster
10.0

Follows police detective Mohammad Alavi as he tries to deal with the death of his wife and daughters, and solve the case of a murdered woman.

Twilight

2001

The River's End poster
6.5

A young man leaves his birthplace, Isfahan, to come to capital city ,Tehran, to forgot his childhood memories. He is the storyteller and he tarts revealing his dreams which have been started a few months after the death of his father. In these dreams father persuades him to go to the Gav Khuni Swamp

The River's End

2004

The Ship Angelica poster
5.3

Many years ago The Angelica which was carrying gold and silver from the Portuguese to the Arab Sheykhs had been sunk in the Persian Gulf. Ahmad Beyk manages to find the place of it and is after ...

The Ship Angelica

1989

The Cycle poster
6.9

Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.

The Cycle

1978

The Night poster
2.0

A sergeant who is on a mission to take a criminal to the prison is forced to spend a night with him in Mashhad.

The Night

2007

Punishment Committe poster
6.5

In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish the traitors. With the lead of Abolfatooh Mirza, Reza Tofangchi begins the assassinations.

Punishment Committe

1997

Mr. Gullible poster
5.4

The story of a simple fellow from a small town who travels to Tehran to find a suitable girl for marriage.

Mr. Gullible

1970

The Blue-Veiled poster
5.3

An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.

The Blue-Veiled

1995

The Mix poster
6.0

An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.

The Mix

2000

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

The Cow poster
7.7

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.

The Cow

1969

Bita poster
6.0

Hajir Darioush's first and last commercially successful film, "Bita" is about a young woman's struggle to come to terms with social barriers facing her, starring Googoosh.

Bita

1972

Behind the camera