Ezzatollah Entezami

Acting

Ezzatollah Entezami

Born — Died

1924-01-01 — 2018-08-17

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

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 I…

Known for

Battle of Oil Tankers poster
5.5

During Iran-Iraq war the Iraqi army was attacking the Iranian oil tankers repeatedly. A young captain decides to pass an oil tanker through the enemy lines and deliver it to overseas. He ...

Battle of Oil Tankers

1994

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

Jamshid Mashayekhi poster
NR

Documentary about Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019).

Jamshid Mashayekhi

2007

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

Hezar Dastan poster
7.2

Hezar-Dastan was an Iranian epic historical drama television series from 1987, developed and directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered one of the most important and most influential works of art in the history of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The production of the show took almost 8 years, starting in 1979 and ending in 1987, during which Hatami established a large set to represent Tehran in both Qajar dynasty and World War II, retroactively creating Iran's first movie studio and backlot (named Ghazali Cinema Town). The show tells the story of Reza Khoshnevis (also known as Reza Tofangchi), and his life and entanglement with corruption in government, and trying to correct it using not conventional means. The story is split into two section and it features Iran during the turbulent times of the latter days of Qajar Dynasty and during the events of World War II and Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.

Hezar Dastan

1988

The Maritime Silk Road poster
4.6

A young student of Shiraz university joins Captain Soleiman on a maritime journey to China in 11th BC.

The Maritime Silk Road

2011

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

2000s · 14 titles

Jamshid Mashayekhi poster
NR

Documentary about Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019).

Jamshid Mashayekhi

2007

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

Summit of the Wave poster
NR

Part 3 of documentary trilogy about Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This part focuses on her theatre and film work.

Summit of the Wave

2003

Verdict poster
4.3

Sahand, Mohsen and Foroozande are attacking engineer Kazem's house on a rainy night and steal the house and injure him. They decide to flee Forouzande from Iran to another country. They go ...

Verdict

2005

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

The Green Fire poster
3.0

Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a book beside it. She begins to read the book and follows the instructions step by step.

The Green Fire

2008

The Night poster
5.0

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

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 Insane Flew Away poster
NR

Yalda is married to Rouzbeh who is an injure of war. Rouzbeh's health getting worse and they should hospitalize him. Although Yalda loves Rouzbeh very much but she begins to doubt her ...

The Insane Flew Away

2003

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

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

A House Built on Water poster
7.5

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.

A House Built on Water

2002

A Place to Live poster
1.0

Six young men—Pouya, Reza, Abbas, Hossein, Saeed, and Mojtaba—live together in a Tehran dormitory during the last days of the year. The film observes their daily routines, small struggles, and shared hopes.

A Place to Live

2004

Motherland poster
1.0

After Islamic Revolution in Iran, many iranians left Iran .now some of them returns to their motherland. 2. A German scientist investigated whether turtles which left Iranian beaches returns to their motherland after thirty years or not.

Motherland

2009

1990s · 14 titles

Battle of Oil Tankers poster
5.5

During Iran-Iraq war the Iraqi army was attacking the Iranian oil tankers repeatedly. A young captain decides to pass an oil tanker through the enemy lines and deliver it to overseas. He ...

Battle of Oil Tankers

1994

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 Quiet Home poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Quiet Home

1992

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait poster
9.0

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae. Stardust Stricken -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait documents the work of this Iranian filmmaker. After spending time in prison for political dissidence, Makhmalbaf discovered the social potential of the cinema. Some of his projects include Marriage of the Blessed and The Actor. While creating around 20 films, the outspoken director established new ideas about the nature of his work. In this release, Makhmalbaf speaks about art, human behavior, and his evolving fundamentalist beliefs.

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

1996

Baziche poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baziche

1993

Once Upon a Time, Cinema poster
6.6

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the history of Iranian cinema to the Shah. The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.

Once Upon a Time, Cinema

1992

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

Hamoon poster
7.0

Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.

Hamoon

1990

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

Day of the Angel poster
6.0

Nyatollah is a rich stingy guy who loves money. One day when he goes to the court to do a job for a friend he is thrown from the roof. This is the beginning of his acquaintance with Djin and the beginning of his adventure.

Day of the Angel

1993

The Lady poster
7.0

Maryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.

The Lady

1992

Once Upon a Time in Tehran poster
NR

The second feature film to be edited using footage from Hatami's miniseries Hezar Dastan.

Once Upon a Time in Tehran

1999

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

The Shadow of Imagination poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Shadow of Imagination

1991

1980s · 12 titles

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

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

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

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

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

The Suitcase poster
9.0

On a road trip to the north the members of the family find a suitcase. They want to open it but the head of the family is not allowing them. This marks the beginning of the adventures for them in the rest of their trip.

The Suitcase

1988

Kamalolmolk poster
7.2

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

Kamalolmolk

1984

The Tenants poster
6.2

A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.

The Tenants

1987

The Stone Lion poster
8.5

When a British officer is found dead on a pipeline, tensions rise between a local tribe and authorities.

The Stone Lion

1987

Jafar Khan is back from the West poster
5.5

Jafar Khan, son of a rich traditional family in Tehran, comes back to Iran after spending 8 years for studying in Europe, but he has changed completely to the extent that he cannot even speaks Farsi properly.

Jafar Khan is back from the West

1985

The House of Spider poster
NR

Four persons, each of whom represents a particular aspect of a dependent society, hide in a villa located in the north of Iran. They are all involved in Operation Eagle Claw waiting to see its success. When the operations fails, their relations change. The one who is a symbol of a system viewpoint based on the domination of world powers, kills all his friends, and at last he encounters the youngest member of the group who has found out about his true nature and is killed by him; but before he dies, he kills this young man too.

The House of Spider

1983

Grand Cinema poster
6.0

This is a fictional story of early days of cinema theaters in Iran in early 20th century in the dawn of Persian constitutional revolution. Roosi Khan and Aghaiev who are supported by ...

Grand Cinema

1989

1970s · 11 titles

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

Sattar Khan poster
7.5

Based on the true story of the Azari war hero, Sattar Khan, during the time of the Constitutional Revolution. The story follows Sattar and Haydar as they join another hero Baqir Khan.

Sattar Khan

1973

The Postman poster
6.8

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

The Postman

1972

First Case, Second Case poster
7.2

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does not own up to talking behind the master's back.

First Case, Second Case

1979

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 Divine One poster
5.0

Mr. Mavadat in a party in his garden gets poisonous and his friends have to take him to doctor Hatam. But the doctor hides many dark secrets in his basement which are revealed little by little.

The Divine One

1976

Bita poster
6.3

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

Mr. Gullible poster
5.7

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 Condemned poster
NR

Asgar and Qader have been friends since childhood. Hussein General, a man of bad character who leads the local teenagers in a fight with the teenagers of Qala Sangi neighborhood, has dedicated his life to their happiness. Asgar and Qader both loved Zainab; but Zainab is married to Asgar. Asgar, who is suspicious of his wife's affairs, constantly annoys Hussein General and Qader. One day, while picking date clusters from a palm tree, while thinking about his wife's relationship with Qader, he falls from the top of the palm tree and loses his sight. Zainab and Qader take care of him; but Asgar's sense of pessimism and suspicion towards his wife and Qader increases. Asgar drags Qader to the palm grove and while he is praying, he cuts him to pieces with a turban and throws his body into the sea. General Hussein, who witnesses the incident, informs Zeinab; but he, unable to allay his wife's insane suspicion, kindly invites the local waterman to his house for lunch.

The Condemned

1977

Resurrection of Love poster
7.0

Hossein the fabric seller, before dying, bequeaths to Mr. Kamal, a pious and ascetic man, to accept the guardianship of his daughter Golrokh. Mr. Kamal takes the girl to his home. Gradually, both Mr. Kamal and his young son become fond of Golrokh.

Resurrection of Love

1973

Sadegh the Kurd poster
7.0

Sadegh and his wife manage a tea house in the way between Ahvaz and Andimeshk south of Iran. One night in his absence a friend of him who is a truck driver comes to his place and the wife is getting killed. The police are after the murderer but Sadegh who seeks revenge begins to kill the truck drivers on the way. This put him in fronting the law.

Sadegh the Kurd

1972

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