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- Biopic on the classic Persian poet of the 11th century.
- A Persian equivalent of Romeo and Juliet.
- The bankrupt Abolhasan invites home a stranger who will make all his dreams come true.
- It has not been long since Golnar married Homayoun that her husband reportedly died in a car accident. Golnar has been displaced, but soon Engineer Raouf finds a new purpose in life.
- Robabeh who wants to help her father in bread winning for their crowded family begins to work as a baby sitter in a rich family. But she is deceived by a guy Parviz and becomes pregnant. She leaves them and with the help of an old man Taghi begins to work in a cabaret as a singer. But Parviz finds her again and in a quarrel gets killed. Robabeh goes to jail and a family take care of her daughter Mahoosh. After 15 years Robabeh gets released while her daughter is about to get marry. Robabeh goes away so her daughter not to be offended by her but the daughter comes after her and gets her back.
- Mashhadi Ebad is a stingy and rich old man who is fascinated by Golnar, the daughter of Rostam Beyk, a bankrupt businessman .
- Golnesa is the popular girl of their village and all want to marry her, but she is deceived by a man from the city.
- An interesting, if occasionally slow and overtly polemical adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's beloved American classic, filmed and set in Iran the year after the CIA-led deposition of liberal president Mossadeq. The necessary updating of the Civil War setting to modern-day Iran requires that we see the incoming Shah Pahlavi and his family as the rapacious Yankees and carpetbaggers, while the noble, tradition-revering Southerners become a diverse group of liberal progressives incensed by US interference and much given to stomping on the Stars and Stripes and burning effigies of Marilyn Monroe and Mickey Rooney in the streets of Tehran. Sarfitta Oharakiri, a spoiled young Persian princess, is bored by the coup and more interested in getting handsome dreamy Ashkaban to marry her... but he is pledged to his cousin, the simple and good Melamoodi, so Sarfitta runs away to Tehran where she scandalizes the good townsfolk by giving them the first demonstration of the hand-jive they have ever seen, at a fundraiser for the Ayatollah. She also consorts with Reza Batlari, a sexy if unscrupulous horse trader from Saudi Arabia who is suspected of collaboration with the Shah. Years pass, people die and Sarfitta opens an opium den in the heart of the souk which makes her incredibly rich - mostly because she gets American secret service agents addicted to the hookah. When the Shah's forces crack down on the Tehranis, Ashkaban falls to pieces, Melamoodhi dies in a suicide bombing and Reza walks out on Sarfitta, telling her "My dear, I don't give a damn. Alu Akbar!" Sarfitta, weeping through her chador decides to return to her ancestral goat shack, Tararizm, declaring that tomorrow is another day. Several elements of the original story are missing (such as the slaves, although these ordinary 1950s Iranians sure do have a lot of English au-pairs in the story) and the decision to tell much of the story in elaborate music-and-dance sequences tends to confuse the action, the more so because the lyrics are apparently impossible to translate. There's also rather a lot of gun and rifle brandishing and enthusiastic beating of women, all of whom become more and more difficult to identify as the Tehranis enthusiastically embrace the veil; the fundraising ball, for instance, resembles feeding time at the Penguin House, or one of the weirder sequences in Eyes Wide Shut. Nevertheless, Sarfitta and her faithful au pair Mandy are beautifully played, even if Sarfitta smacks her rather a lot for no apparent reason while ululating shrilly and invoking Allah.
- When Ayeshe loses her only child to hunger and poverty, she decides to avenge her ex-husband who she holds responsible for all her troubles.