Director: Ebrahim Hatamikia
Cast: Hamid Farrokhnejad, Khazar Ma'soumi, Koorosh Tahami, Behnaz tavakoli, Reza Babak
Be Range Arghavan is a 2010 Iranian drama-thriller directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, exploring the moral weight carried by an intelligence operative who is ordered to surveil a young university student with a politically complicated family history in post-revolutionary Iran.
What is Be Range Arghavan about?
A veteran agent working covertly for Iranian intelligence is assigned to monitor a college-aged woman whose mother and father were once deeply involved with a radical political organization. As he shadows her daily life — her classes, friendships, private moments — he finds himself confronting questions he was trained to suppress. The woman lives outwardly as any ordinary student, yet the shadow of her parents' past hangs over every interaction. The mission pulls the operative between duty and conscience, between the state's demand for certainty and his own growing uncertainty about what justice actually requires. What begins as routine surveillance gradually unsettles everything he thought he understood about loyalty and humanity.
Cast & crew
Hamid Farrokhnejad leads as the conflicted intelligence officer, bringing quiet intensity to a role that requires more suppression than expression. Khazar Ma'soumi plays the student at the center of the investigation. The supporting ensemble — including Behnaz Tavakoli, Reza Babak, and Farhad Ghaemian — grounds the political drama in recognizable human texture without overpowering the central moral duel.
Context & significance
Ebrahim Hatamikia is among the most respected voices in Iranian cinema, known for films that hold state and individual conscience in careful tension. Be Range Arghavan arrives from that same tradition — a thriller that refuses easy villains. For diaspora viewers, especially those whose own families lived through the political fractures of the 1980s, the film touches raw nerve: children marked by parents' choices, surveillance as intimacy, and the bureaucratic machinery that decides who belongs. The Mojahedin Khalq background gives the story a historically charged texture that resonates far beyond Iran's borders.
Where & how to watch
Be Range Arghavan is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. No Persian dubbing or subtitles are included. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.