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(12 Sandali) 2012-Banned
The eighth feature film of Esmael barari being adapted from “The twelve Chairs” novel by soviet authors Ilia Ilf and Yevgeni Petrove released in 1928. This novel has adapted to film between 1933 to 2004 for many times. This Iranian adaptation that has classic satirical content is written by Dariush Rayat.
Plot:
The script was written by Dariush Rayat based on a plot created by Esmael Barari while they met in a café near Tehran University. The scriptwriter and the director met each other in this café for several months and talked about the scenes of the script for hours. When the script completed, Kurosh Karampour rewrote the dialogues to the Iranian southern accent, Abadani.
Synopsis:
Eskandar, who was formerly the personal driver of “Hoveyda”-prime minister of Pahlavi regime- Claims of knowing a secret of Hovayda; but no one has taken his word seriously. Untill the day he meets Amir Vaziri and tells him about his secret that in addition collection of canes and pipes, Hoveyda has a collection of “paykans”; and once he predicted the upcoming political turmoil in the country hide a very valuable thing in the rear seat of one of twelve Paykans! So Amir and Eskandar begin the search for the hidden item that they don’t know what exactly is.
Finding to 40 years ago -and might have been destryed during these years- is not easy. They look up for the paykans owners with the help of a hacker called “Moosh-e Koor”: head of a political party, a taxi driver woman whose name is “Mounes” , a certified public notary, a women's serial killer, a sheriff in the urban, ... and finally a car cemetery!
All of these are just a story; A story that Mounes tells her children a few years later. The story of the twelve chairs.
Crew:
Director : Esmael Barari
Screen Play: Dariush Rayat
First Assistant Dir.: Arash Sajadi Hosseini
Second Assistant Dir.: Maziar Salehi
Script Girl: Maryam Moradi
Director of Cinematography: Mojtaba Rahimi
Assistant of Cinematography: Djavad Zohrabi
Art Director: Jamshid Khoshdel
Set Designer: Arezoo Aryaii
Editor: Ebrahim Keyhani & Esmael Barari
Music: Nasser CheshmAzar
Director of Sound: Mehdi Darabi
Sound man: Farid Pirayesh
Make Up: Mehrdad Shekarabi
Make Up assistant: Ali Shekarabi, Bahareh Hesanifar
Visual Effect: Hadi Djamshidi
Phography: Behrouz Sadeghi
Production Manager: Mojtaba Motavalli
Producer: Esmael Barari
Cast:
Farzad Dezdemeh, Ahmad Najafi, Dariush Asadzadeh, Afsar Asadi, Arjang Amirfazli, Azadeh Mehdizadeh, Ramtin Khodapanahi
Alireza Osivand, Reza Tavakoli, Mehran Rajabi, Farshid Zareiifar, Arash Nozari, Sattar Haris (Firouz)
World Iranian Film Center
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