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Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Fantasy, History, Comedy · 1h 32m
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.
Cast
Ezzatollah Entezami
Mehdi Hashemi
Mohammadali Keshavarz
Akbar Abdi
Dariush Arjmand
Fatemeh Motamed-Arya
Mahaya Petrossian
Parvaneh Massoumi
Jahangir Forouhar
Morteza Ahmadi
Saeed Amirsoleimani
Crew
- Director
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Writer
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Director of Photography
- Faraj Heydari, Nemat Haghighi
- Original Music Composer
- Majid Entezami
- Editor
- Davoud Yusefian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Producer
- Masoud Jafari Jozani, Mohammadmehdi Dadgoo
Details
- Original title
- ناصرالدین شاه، آکتور سینما
- Release date
- 1992-02-01
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Fantasy, History, Comedy
- Original language
- FA
- Spoken languages
- Persian
- Countries
- Iran
- Production
- Jozan Film