- Hezar Dastan
Infobox_Film
name = Hezar Dastan
director =Ali Hatami
starring =Ezzatolah Entezami Jamshid Mashayekhi
M. A. KeshavarzDavoud Rashidi
distributor=Channel 1
released=1987
runtime = 720 minutes
language = Persian|"Hezar-Dastan"
1978 -1987 is a highly popular TV series inIran directed byAli Hatami .Hezar Dastan is considered as eternal work in the history of Iranian TV.Hatami established a small town as historical site in which he made Hezar Dastan.In 2006,Hezar Dastan was voted by theAssociation of Iranian movies and TV critics as the best Iranian TV series ever made.tory
Ghazarian jewelry-shop is robbed by the six-fingered inspector. A set of jewelry, belonging to Master Mozafar's daughter-in-law is among the jewels. Master Mozafar, who used to be the governor of the city of Kerman asks the Head of the Police Department in
Tehran to locate the missing jewels. All of the pieces of jewelry are finally found, except for a necklace.The corrupt inspector, whose position has become shaky, retreats to
Mashad . He asserts pressure on Reza Khoshnevis, the famouscalligrapher , to hand over his wealth to him. It is then that Reza recounts the story of his life under torture.Partial cast
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Ezzatolah Entezami — Hezardastan
*Jamshid Mashayekhi — Reza Khoshnevis/Reza Tofangchi
*Mohamad Ali Keshavarz — Shaban Ostekhani
*Davoud Rashidi — Mofattesh shesh angoshti
*Jahangir Forouhar — Mofattesh e Nazmie
*Mohamad Motie — Gholam ammeTrivia
The movie was censored numerous times before it was cleared for screening by Islamic organizations in Iran.
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469703/ Hezar Dastan] at
The Internet Movie Database
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