Lak ghermez is a Persian-language drama from Iran that reached audiences in 2016 with a running time of eighty-five minutes. Pardis Ahmadieh heads a small cast alongside Pantea Panahiha and Behnam Tashakkor.
What is Lak ghermez about?
The picture is a compact contemporary drama built around a narrow circle of characters rather than a crowded ensemble, a scale its eighty-five minutes keeps deliberately tight. Its Persian title translates roughly as red lacquer, the ordinary red nail polish that gives the work its central image and its name. Shooting wrapped in 2015 and the release followed a year later. It belongs to the modest-budget strand of Iranian feature production that favours domestic interiors, present-day settings and performance-led storytelling over spectacle. Ahmadieh appears opposite Panahiha and Tashakkor, three performers whose screen work sits mainly in the realist register long dominant in the country's drama output. The screenplay came from Amir Abdi, and Kamran Majidi oversaw the production.
About the cast
Pardis Ahmadieh takes the leading role. Pantea Panahiha, among the most steadily employed character actresses in Iranian cinema and television, appears in support; her filmography spans two decades of features and serials, much of it family-centred drama. Behnam Tashakkor is a familiar screen and stage presence at home, with credits across both comic and serious material. Direction is credited to Seyed Jamal Seyed Hatami.
Context & significance
Iranian feature output in the mid-2010s ran to well over a hundred titles cleared for release in a typical year, most of them mid-scale dramas made for domestic cinemas, home video and festivals inside the country rather than for export. Lak ghermez sits in that group: a single-genre drama, no international co-production credit, and a cast drawn from actors who move continuously between cinema and television at home. Its IMDb user rating stands at 6.4, on the small vote count typical of titles that circulated mainly within Iran. For viewers abroad, work at this scale is often hard to locate once the theatrical window closes, which is much of why the K-Time catalogue keeps it listed and searchable.
Watching Lak ghermez on K-Time
Lak ghermez streams on K-Time, the Persian-focused service built for the Iranian diaspora. The page you are reading is open to anyone; starting playback requires a K-Time account login. The interface runs in Farsi as well as English, so search, browsing and the continue-watching row read naturally for Persian-speaking households, and one account carries across the web player, Android TV and mobile.