Is Ghesas (1972) available to watch online?

Yes. Ghesas is streamable on K-Time in its original Persian-language version. You can watch on a web browser, a connected TV, or your Android device — no VPN or geo-restriction applies.

Does Ghesas have English subtitles?

K-Time streams Ghesas in its original Persian audio. Subtitle availability depends on the version in the catalog — check the player options when you start the film on K-Time.

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K-Time has a selection of classic Film Farsi titles featuring Googoosh, including Ghesas. Search her name in the K-Time catalog to browse available films from her pre-revolution career.

What is the story of Ghesas about?

Ghesas follows two old friends whose bond collapses into vengeance after a series of betrayals involving the women in their lives. The film escalates through jealousy, violence, and increasingly desperate acts of retaliation.

Ghesas

Name: Ghesas
Genre: Film Farsi
Released: 1972
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Googoosh, Nasser Malek Matiei, Puri Banai, Firoozeh

Director: Nezam Fatemi

Cast: Googoosh, Nasser Malek Matiei, Puri Banai, Firoozeh

Ghesas is a 1972 Iranian Film Farsi drama directed by Nezam Fatemi, set in a world of broken loyalties and bitter vengeance. Starring Googoosh alongside Nasser Malek Matiei, the film traces how a long friendship unravels into a cycle of betrayal, violence, and tragic consequence.

What is Ghesas about?

Two childhood friends, Muzaffar and Qasim, find their bond tested when Muzaffar sets his sights on Toby, a young woman whose father is a traveling entertainer. Years earlier Muzaffar had stepped aside in a romantic rivalry involving Qasim's wife, Leia, storing resentment on both sides. When Muzaffar pursues Toby, Qasim vows retribution. Acting on his darkest impulse one night, Qasim commits an act of violence against Toby that leads to catastrophe. Once Muzaffar discovers what has happened, he strikes back — abducting Qasim's young son, the one person Qasim loves above all else — and makes a chilling demand of Leia to secure the boy's release. The film follows each escalation, showing how pride, jealousy, and old scores transform two men into instruments of each other's ruin.

Cast & crew

Googoosh, one of pre-revolution Iran's most iconic entertainers, brings her distinctive presence to the role of Toby, a woman caught between powerful, competing men. Nasser Malek Matiei plays Muzaffar with a volatile mix of wounded pride and ruthless cunning. Puri Banai and Firoozeh round out the ensemble, lending the domestic scenes their emotional texture. The film was directed by Nezam Fatemi, a filmmaker active in the classic Film Farsi era.

Context & significance

Film Farsi was the popular commercial cinema of pre-revolutionary Iran — melodramas, cabarets, feuds, and folk morality played out with high emotion and vivid characters. Ghesas belongs squarely to that tradition, offering diaspora viewers a window into the cultural world their parents or grandparents knew. For Iranian audiences abroad, watching a title like this is as much about reconnecting with a vanished social landscape as it is about the story itself. Googoosh's presence alone carries enormous weight for the community: her voice, her face, and her career were defining features of Iranian popular culture in the 1970s, and encountering her in this early role holds genuine historical resonance.

Where & how to watch

Ghesas is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web browser, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.