Director: Jahangir Jahangiri
Cast: Abolfazl Poorarab, Parastoo Golestani, Reza Karam Rezai
Rabeteye Penhani is a 1993 Iranian action drama and thriller directed by Jahangir Jahangiri, set against the backdrop of the volatile early years of the Islamic Republic. Running 98 minutes, the film follows a military officer drawn into a clandestine conspiracy that puts both his career and personal relationships under intense pressure.
What is Rabeteye Penhani about?
Hamid, a pilot sergeant serving with an Air Force aerobatics unit, is recruited by a secretive group with ambitions to seize political control. The year is 1358 on the Persian calendar — a turbulent period in Iranian history. Promised advancement in rank and standing if the group's plan succeeds, Hamid finds himself weighing personal ambition against conscience. His fiancée Badri holds a sharply different view of what he is becoming involved in, and her convictions introduce a moral counterweight that Hamid cannot easily dismiss. The film builds its tension through this conflict between loyalty, love, and the machinery of political intrigue, without tipping its hand about how far Hamid will go or what the consequences will ultimately be.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Jahangir Jahangiri, an Iranian filmmaker working in genre cinema of the early post-revolution era. Abolfazl Poorarab leads as Hamid, a recognized presence in Iranian film and television. Parastoo Golestani plays his fiancée Badri, and Reza Karam Rezai appears in a supporting role.
Context & significance
Iranian political thrillers of the early 1990s often drew on the dramatic upheavals of the years immediately following the 1979 revolution, including the turbulent period known as the 1358s. Rabeteye Penhani belongs to this wave — films that used the thriller framework to dramatize moral dilemmas facing ordinary people caught in large historical forces. For diaspora viewers, the film offers a window into how Iranian popular cinema of that generation grappled with questions of duty, loyalty, and political allegiance. It is a period piece rooted in the country's recent memory, told through the conventions of action drama.
Where & how to watch
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