Irene Zazians

Irene Zazians

Born: August 20, 1927
Died: July 28, 2012
Irene Zazians (August 20, 1927 – July 28, 2012), known mononymously as Irene, was an Iranian-Armenian actress of cinema and television. She worked with famous Iranian new wave directors both before and after the 1979 revolution, such as Samuel Khachikian, Amir Naderi, Nosrat Karimi, Masoud Kimiyayi, and Alireza Davood Nejad. Her two films after the revolution, The Red Line directed by Kimiyayi and The Reward by Davood Nejad, were banned.

She also appeared in four TV series. She portrayed Mahde Olya (Nasereddin Shah's mother) in Soltan-e Sahebgheran directed by Ali Hatami in 1976. Her role in Hezar Dastan, another series directed by Ali Hatami, was cut out. After the Iranian revolution she was banned from taking part in any artistic activities. She travelled to Germany, where she re-trained as a beautician. She returned to Iran in 1986, during the harshest time of the Iran-Iraq war. Her last performance in cinema was in Shirin in 2008, a film by Abbas Kiarostami. She died of lung cancer in 2012 in Tehran.

Movies for Irene Zazians...

Women According to Men
Title: Women According to Men
Released: April 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women's lives were strongly determined by two contradictory factors: the traditional patriarchy and the shah's modernisation policies. This film-excerpt collage starts in 1932 – the year the first Iranian film with sound was made – and ends in 1979 revealing how, during this period, women were depicted by generally male film directors.
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Filmfarsi
Title: Filmfarsi
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: Movie
A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
Title: Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.
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The Red Line
Title: The Red Line
Character: Lale's mother
Released: February 1, 1982
Type: Movie
During the Islamic revolution a SAVAK member Amani marries a woman her name Laleh. Laleh is a doctor and helps the injures of the revolution. Her brother is too involved in the revolution.
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Berehne ta zohr ba sorat
Title: Berehne ta zohr ba sorat
Released: October 6, 1976
Type: Movie
A young man who has killed his creditor is coerced into cutting his ties with his fiancé and marrying the woman who witnessed his crime.
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Anxiety
Title: Anxiety
Character: Shahla
Released: May 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Amir is the accountant of a company that is falsely accused of embezzlement, and before his arrest, he kills the chief accountant who is the main culprit...
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The Last Supper
Title: The Last Supper
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Red-Haired
Title: The Red-Haired
Character: Nayyer
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Nayyer after killing a woman takes over Sha'ban's lands and accused him of the killing causing him to be imprisoned. A young guy known as Red-Haired is protecting her. But Sha'ban is back and this time in a quarrel gets killed by Nayyer's men. Meanwhile, a young girl Ahou is coming in the middle which causes Red-Haired to fall in love with her. This changes everything and leads Red-haired to face Nayyer and her men.
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Rooster
Title: Rooster
Character: Belgheis
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband, a woman lives with her son, a cockfighter. An old admirer approaches the woman, but her son is against this new marriage.
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Akbar the Interpreter
Title: Akbar the Interpreter
Character: Maliheh
Released: November 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Akbar has just lost his job when he meets a foreign tourist woman named Catherine and starts working as her guide. This proves to be troublesome since his wife and his former co-workers try to end his new relationship.
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Hakim-bashi
Title: Hakim-bashi
Character: Ensiyeh
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
A young doctor enters a village to serve there but the traditional doctor Mozaffar Khan Hakim-bashi didn't like that and thinks him a rival. Mozaffar Khan and his assistant begin to plot against the doctor making people to doubt him. Meanwhile Hakim-bashi's daughter falls in love with the young doctor and this lead to more adventures.
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Baluch
Title: Baluch
Character: Farangis
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Two gangster squads who smuggle antiques fight each other in Zahedan. The first squad's members manage to kill the members of the other squad. Two villains of them rape a woman Leila who is the wife of a man his name Baluch and escape to Tehran. He pursues them and shots them. While thinking that he had killed them, he surrender to the police and imprisoned for 12 years. When released from the prison he finds that they are not dead. He goes after them and kills both of them.
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The Triple Bed
Title: The Triple Bed
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Pooran doesn't get pregnant so Mahmood marries a widow in the hope of becoming a father. Unpredicted things happen when the three of them have to live in the same house.
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The Interim Husband
Title: The Interim Husband
Released: March 23, 1971
Type: Movie
A man who divorced his wife three times due to a misunderstanding , regrets his act after realizing the truth and decides to marry her again. An Interim Husband is needed for this.
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Homaye saadat
Title: Homaye saadat
Released: March 18, 1971
Type: Movie
The film is based in Tehran, Iran. The lead character, Aarun falls in love with a beautiful dancer Shirin. Due to her dubious profession, Aarun and his brother Naseer decide to lie about her origins to their mother. Unfortunately, she finds out the truth and forbids Shirin from marrying her son. Aarun, believing Shirin has changed her mind and refused to marry him, is angered and marries another woman, Nazneen. Only Naseer knows the truth of why Shirin refused to marry Aarun. Years later, Aarun and Nazneen's son, Romil, becomes best friends with a fatherless boy, Razzaq, who invites Aarun to his home. When Aarun goes to his house, he finds out that Razzaq is his and Shirin's own son. Following the death of Nazneen, Aarun finally manages to convince his mother to accept Razzaq as her grandson, and Shirin as his wife.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Leyla
Released: March 21, 1968
Type: Movie
To find pearls, a fisher man goes to the sea on a cursed ship. But the ship seamen leave him in an island and go. 15 years later he finally returns home, where his 15-year-old son, provoked by the diamond smugglers, wants to kill him.
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Anxiety
Title: Anxiety
Released: December 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Behrouz - a criminal story writer - is married with Roxanne and is running the factory of Roxanne's cousin who was killed in an accident in his factory...
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Mardi ke ranj mibarad
Title: Mardi ke ranj mibarad
Character: Sorour
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A young man is accused of embezzlement by staging his boss and goes to prison, but soon he is acquitted and released, while his family situation is disturbed, he lost his job, his fiance left him and his mother is sick