Hezaro Yek Shab is a 2025 Iranian-Turkish historical fantasy series directed by Mostafa Kiaei, reimagining the timeless world of One Thousand and One Nights through a grand co-production that blends Persian storytelling tradition with epic visual spectacle.
What is Hezaro Yek Shab about?
Adapted from the One Thousand and One Nights story cycle, the series unfolds across three different times and places: present-day Tehran, modern Istanbul, and a mystical ancient realm known as "The Other World," a parallel world deeply intertwined with the present. These worlds influence one another in unexpected and mysterious ways. The story begins in Tehran, where a string of disappearances has shaken the city, each case involving a woman. As the investigation into the missing women enters a new phase, Ashian Modabber, a reporter on the crime beat, draws closer to the prime suspect with every step. The series layers its threads across the three settings, revealing how the ancient tales and the modern mystery feed into one another, with a large ensemble and lavish production design reconstructing a mythic world that has shaped Persian literary heritage for centuries.
About the cast
Directed and produced by Mostafa Kiaei, a filmmaker best known for popular Iranian features such as Special Line and Barcode, the series brings together a heavyweight Iranian ensemble: Parviz Parastui, Bahram Radan, Mohsen Kiaei, Sahar Dolatshahi, Pedram Sharifi, Pantea Panahiha and Habib Rezaei. Credited as an Iran-Turkey-UAE co-production with its story split between Tehran and Istanbul, the project pairs familiar faces of Iranian cinema with international production scale.
Context & significance
Hezaro Yek Shab holds deep roots in the Iranian cultural imagination. The One Thousand and One Nights cycle — known in Persian as Hezar o Yek Shab — has been retold across manuscripts, oral traditions, and modern adaptations for well over a millennium. For diaspora viewers who grew up hearing these tales from grandparents or reading illustrated editions, a prestige serialized version carries genuine emotional weight. The Iranian-Turkish co-production model also signals a new era of Persian-language content with international production values, giving diaspora audiences something that matches the scale of global streaming dramas while remaining rooted in their own cultural memory.
Watching Hezaro Yek Shab on Ktime
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