Majid Majidi

The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and importance of film scenography.

In February 1965, Seyed Ali Andarzgou along with several others waited in front of the parliament building to assassinate Hasan Ali Mansour. The assassination is carried out successfully, but the officers arrest and execute all the perpetrators of the assassination except Seyed Ali Andarzgou after a lot of investigation. SAVAK agents are looking for Andarzgou because they consider him to be one of the main designers of the assassination, but Seyed Ali Andarzgou continues to fight in disguise and reaches the border of arrest several times, but he is saved and every time he is forced to go with The family moves to another city or village. For the last time, SAVAK agents besieged his place of residence and Seyed Ali Andarzgou was martyred after a severe armed conflict.

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At the same time, his comrades pressure him to make a sacrifice for their cause, and his beloved wife experiences personal problems and economic hardships.

Five men escape to a remote island in order to fight the Devil. Four of them give into the temptations provided by the Devil, and die. However the last man is able to defeat the Devil by accepting God.

Iman wants to go and fight in the Iran-Iraq War, but he has some problems that he has to solve first. The problems consist of his daughter’s wedding and treating his blind son. He is busy trying to solve these two problems when his other son returns from the front with wounded legs. Iman forgets about going to the front and goes to several hospitals with his two sons seeking care for them. When the hospitals cannot solve his sons' problems he takes them to a holy place to be cured.

During the time of the Pahlavi Dynasty - the ruling House of Iran - the US President Richard Nixon is about to visit Tehran, but a violent armed opposing group intend to make their mark by planting a bomb in a public office in protest. However, in the middle of the terror plot a Muslim member of this group decides to confront his own peers on the nature of this act. An action-filled political treat that delves into themes of morality and protest.