Director: Seyed Mohmmad Reza Raisi
Cast: Fathali Oveisi, Kianoush Gerami, Mehran Rajabi, Afshin Sang-chap, Asghar Heydari
Apartemane Aghaie Honarpisheh is a 2015 Iranian comedy film directed by Seyed Mohammad Reza Raisi, following a celebrated cinema actor whose mounting debts force him to put his beloved apartment on the market — setting the stage for an ensemble of quirky, warmly drawn characters.
What is Apartemane Aghaie Honarpisheh about?
A well-known actor, respected in his professional world but quietly overwhelmed by financial pressure, reluctantly lists his apartment for sale. As prospective buyers from wildly different walks of life come knocking, each visit triggers its own chain of misunderstandings, comedic friction, and unexpected human moments. The apartment becomes a stage of its own — a revolving door of personalities, ambitions, and social absurdities. Through it all, the actor must hold his dignity together while his private life slowly spills into public view. The film uses the apartment-sale premise to sketch a warm, gently satirical portrait of contemporary Iranian society.
Cast & crew
Director Seyed Mohammad Reza Raisi assembles a broad ensemble for this domestic comedy. Veteran character actor Fathali Oveisi anchors the film as the beleaguered protagonist, supported by Kianoush Gerami, Mehran Rajabi, Afshin Sang-chap, Asghar Heydari, Fariba Naderi, and Javad Zeytouni — a collective whose range across comedic and dramatic registers gives the rotating cast of apartment-hunters its comic energy.
Context & significance
Iranian domestic comedies have long used confined, familiar spaces — a courtyard, a rooftop, an apartment building — as a mirror for class tensions, generational gaps, and the small indignities of urban life. Apartemane Aghaie Honarpisheh sits comfortably within that tradition, offering diaspora viewers a recognisable Tehran social landscape: the pressures of real estate, the performance of respectability, and the comedy that emerges when private struggles become unavoidably public. For viewers who grew up watching Iranian family comedies on satellite television, the film's ensemble rhythm and its gentle poke at social pretension carry an immediate warmth.
Where & how to watch
Apartemane Aghaie Honarpisheh is available on K-Time with the original Persian audio. No VPN is needed and there is no geo-blocking — stream directly on the web, on your TV, or on your phone. Start watching today and cancel anytime.