Director: Hamaseh Parsa
Cast: Hamed Behdad-Homayoun Ershadi-Mohammadreza Fard-Faramarz Gharibian-Sara Monjezi-Hamaseh Parsa
Chaharshanbe Khoon Be Pa Mishavad is a 2015 Iranian crime thriller directed by Hamaseh Parsa, running 96 minutes. Set against the urgent backdrop of a ticking execution deadline, the film pulls viewers into a desperate hostage standoff that questions the limits of loyalty, justice, and sacrifice.
What is Chaharshanbe Khoon Be Pa Mishavad about?
Aras is running out of time. His close friend sits in prison, an execution order looming, and every legal avenue has been shut. In a last-ditch act of desperation, Aras enlists his sister and a small circle of trusted companions to seize an exchange shop and hold the staff hostage. Their demand is straightforward but impossible: free a condemned man before the clock runs out. As negotiations spiral and pressure mounts on all sides, the film excavates what ordinary people are willing to risk — and lose — when the system offers no other exit. The tension is tight, the stakes personal, and the moral ground constantly shifting beneath every character.
Cast & crew
Director Hamaseh Parsa also appears in the film, doubling as performer and storyteller — a choice that gives the project an intimate, committed energy. The ensemble includes Hamed Behdad, Homayoun Ershadi, Mohammadreza Fard, Faramarz Gharibian, and Sara Monjezi, a group of seasoned Iranian screen presences who collectively anchor the film's pressure-cooker atmosphere.
Context & significance
Iranian crime cinema has long used the confined-space thriller as a vehicle for social commentary, and this film fits firmly in that lineage. For diaspora viewers, stories about state power, institutional failure, and the desperate measures ordinary citizens resort to carry an extra emotional weight — they map onto anxieties that many families carry across generations and borders. Chaharshanbe Khoon Be Pa Mishavad arrives in that tradition without flinching: the exchange-shop setting is mundane, the conflict anything but. It offers Persian-speaking audiences abroad a grounded, tension-driven portrait of loyalty tested to its breaking point inside a system that leaves its characters very little room to move.
Where & how to watch
Chaharshanbe Khoon Be Pa Mishavad is available on K-Time with the original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no extra download, no geo-blocking. Subscribe and cancel anytime.