Two seasoned schemers, one borrowed couple, and a wedding full of gold: Dast Haye Aloodeh (Dirty Hands), Sirus Alvand's 2000 crime drama, watches a robbery succeed and a partnership collapse. Hediyeh Tehrani and Abolfazl Poorarab head the cast of this 103-minute picture, two of the most familiar screen presences of its era.
What is Dast Haye Aloodeh about?
A wedding celebration becomes the target of an audacious robbery. Diba and Siamak, a pair with more ambition than caution, recruit a young married couple, Nader and Roya, to help them lift jewelry from the gathering while the guests are distracted. The theft itself goes off, but keeping the loot proves far harder than taking it: with the police closing in, the four accomplices discover that trust between thieves is the first thing to break. A shortcut to easy money turns into a chase in which every choice narrows their options.
About the cast
Hediyeh Tehrani is the kind of actress Iranian directors reach for when a role calls for cool intelligence under pressure, and her work here sits alongside the thrillers that built that reputation. Abolfazl Poorarab brings the easy assurance of a dependable leading man of popular Iranian cinema, and Asal Badeei, remembered fondly by audiences of that era, rounds out the trio at the head of the cast.
Context & significance
Director Sirus Alvand's name is tied to the popular, audience-facing side of Iranian commercial cinema, working in the genres that drew broad audiences into theatres: melodrama, thriller, crime. Dast Haye Aloodeh reflects a moment when Iranian popular film was increasingly willing to build stories around morally compromised protagonists rather than clear heroes, letting the fallout of a single bad decision carry the drama. For diaspora viewers, films of this period double as a snapshot of Tehran's screen culture at the turn of the millennium.
Watching Dast Haye Aloodeh on K-Time
Dast Haye Aloodeh streams on K-Time in its original Persian. The page you are reading is free; to press play you just need to log in with a K-Time account. The service is built for Persian speakers abroad, with a Farsi-friendly interface and a catalogue that reaches back to titles of exactly this era.