Filmfarsi

Jul 26, 2019

1h 24m

★ 2.0

Overview

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Distorto

Filmfarsi Trailers

Cast

(archive footage)

Naser Malek Motiee

(archive footage)

Mohamad Ali Fardin

(archive footage)

Behrouz Vossoughi

Narrator

Ehsan Khoshbakht

(archive footage)

Pouri Banaei

Himself

Amir Houshang Kavousi

(archive footage)

Irene Zazians

(archive footage)

Googoosh

(archive footage)

Reza Beyk Imanverdi

(archive footage)

Forouzan

(archive footage)

Iraj Ghaderi

(archive footage)

Saeed Rad

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