Is Hamoon a classic Iranian film worth watching?

Yes — with an IMDb rating of 7.9 and direction by Dariush Mehrjui, Hamoon is consistently cited among the essential works of Iranian art cinema. It holds up as a powerful, emotionally honest portrait of a man in crisis.

Hamoon filme irani hast? Koja bebinam online?

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Does Hamoon have English subtitles or Persian dubbing?

Hamoon streams in its original Persian-language audio on K-Time. Subtitle availability may vary — check the player once you start watching for the current options.

Who directed Hamoon and who is in the cast?

Hamoon was directed by Dariush Mehrjui. The lead role is played by Ezzatolah Entezami, with Bita Farahi, Turan Mehrzad, Jalal Moghadam, Fathali Oveisi, and Amrollah Saberi in supporting roles.

Hamoon

Name: Hamoon
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990
Duration: 120 min
Cast: Ezzatolah Entezami, Bita Farahi, Sedigheh Kianfar, Bita Farahi, Turan Mehrzad

Director: Dariush Mehrjui

Cast: Ezzatolah Entezami, Bita Farahi, Sedigheh Kianfar, Bita Farahi, Turan Mehrzad

Hamoon is a 1990 Iranian drama film directed by Dariush Mehrjui, widely considered one of the finest works of post-revolutionary Persian cinema. The film follows a Tehran intellectual in the midst of marital collapse and existential crisis, weaving together memory, dream, and waking life with rare psychological depth.

What is Hamoon about?

Hamid Hamoon is a man whose marriage to Mahshid is crumbling beyond repair. While she moves steadily toward divorce, Hamoon is simultaneously trapped in an endless struggle to complete his doctoral thesis on love and faith — a subject that feels bitterly ironic given his circumstances. Desperate and disoriented, he searches for his old spiritual mentor, Ali Abedini, hoping the encounter might restore some clarity. Through a series of layered flashbacks and hallucinatory dream sequences, Hamoon combs through the choices and failures that brought him to this breaking point, confronting the gap between the ideals he built his identity around and the reality he actually inhabits.

The K-Time take

Mehrjui constructs Hamoon with a restless, fragmented structure that mirrors its protagonist's fractured inner world. Entezami delivers a career-defining performance — raw, comedic, and deeply sorrowful all at once — and the film's blend of absurdist humor with genuine anguish gives it an emotional texture that still feels startlingly alive more than three decades later.

Cast & crew

Veteran stage and screen actor Ezzatolah Entezami carries the film in the lead role, bringing enormous warmth and controlled desperation to a character on the verge of collapse. Bita Farahi plays Mahshid, and Turan Mehrzad, Jalal Moghadam, Fathali Oveisi, and Amrollah Saberi round out a cast of some of the most respected names in Iranian dramatic performance.

Context & significance

Released in 1990, Hamoon arrived at a pivotal moment in Iranian cultural life — in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War, audiences hungry for intimate human stories responded to Mehrjui's portrait of a man adrift between tradition and modernity. For the diaspora, the film resonates on a second level: its themes of displacement, the disintegration of familiar roles, and the search for a mentor-guide speak directly to the experience of living between two worlds. Hamoon is part of the lineage of Iranian art cinema that placed character interiority at the center of storytelling — a tradition that shaped how Persian-language film was seen internationally throughout the 1990s.

Where & how to watch

Hamoon is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Stream it on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.