Paeezan 1987 filme irani — koja bebinam?

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Is Paeezan a thriller or a family drama?

It is both. The film starts as a domestic story about a troubled marriage and becomes a road thriller when an armed stranger hijacks the family's car. The tension stays personal throughout.

Dariush Arjmand dar in film che naghshi dare?

Dariush Arjmand plays a key supporting role that directly drives the film's central conflict. His character's arrival on the road is the pivotal event that sets the thriller elements in motion.

Does Paeezan have English subtitles or Persian dub?

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Paeezan

Name: Paeezan
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: 1987
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Amin Tarokh, Dariush Arjmand, Katayoun Riahi

Director: Rasoul Sadrameli

Cast: Amin Tarokh, Dariush Arjmand, Katayoun Riahi

Paeezan is a 1987 Iranian drama-thriller directed by Rasoul Sadrameli, following a family road trip that turns dangerous when an armed stranger forces his way into their journey — testing the bonds of a marriage already on the verge of collapse.

What is Paeezan about?

Masoud has made up his mind: he is leaving Iran for Europe and leaving behind his wife Parvaneh and their young daughter. Before any final departure, he agrees to one last family trip to visit relatives. On the road, fate intervenes when a wounded man — desperate and armed — climbs into their vehicle and commandeers their route at gunpoint. What began as a tense domestic drive becomes a forced journey into the unknown, where the fragile state of the couple's relationship is stripped bare by fear, pressure, and the presence of a man with his own hidden motives. The film unspools this collision of private crisis and sudden danger across a single gripping road passage.

Cast & crew

Director Rasoul Sadrameli was one of Iran's most socially engaged filmmakers of the post-revolution era, known for intimate dramas rooted in everyday family life. Amin Tarokh leads as Masoud, with Dariush Arjmand — one of Iranian cinema's most versatile character actors — in a pivotal supporting role. Katayoun Riahi brings depth and restraint to the role of Parvaneh, grounding the film's emotional core.

Context & significance

Made in 1987, Paeezan arrives during a particularly fertile period for Iranian family drama, when post-revolution cinema was carving out quiet, introspective stories about ordinary people under pressure. The road-thriller format — a confined space forcing characters into confrontation — was rare in Iranian genre filmmaking of that decade, making Sadrameli's film a distinctive entry. For diaspora viewers who grew up watching Persian cinema of the eighties, this film carries the particular texture of late-revolutionary domestic life: the push toward leaving, the cost of staying, and the uneasy middle ground a family inhabits when everything is uncertain. It resonates strongly for those who know what it meant to plan departure from Iran during that era.

Where & how to watch

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