Director: Kamal Tabrizi
Cast: Arash Majidi, Hossein Mahjoub, Niki Karimi, Golchehreh Sajjadie, Saeid Rad
Rostam Va Haft Gordan is a 2013 Iranian historical drama series directed by Kamal Tabrizi, tracing the social and political transformation of Iran from 1941 through the 1979 revolution as seen through the eyes of one ordinary boy whose life intersects with every major upheaval of the era.
What is Rostam Va Haft Gordan about?
The story follows Rehi, a young boy whose village is destroyed by Allied bombing in 1941. Pulled from the rubble, he is briefly sheltered by his mother before finding his way to Tehran. Over the years he moves between starkly different worlds: first a left-leaning urban household, then an aristocratic court family, and finally a devout religious circle. Each environment reshapes his sense of identity and belonging. The three-season structure mirrors the decades of upheaval across Iran, using Rehi's personal journey as a lens through which the audience observes how ordinary people navigated extraordinary historical pressures without ever fully belonging to any single faction or ideology.
Cast & crew
Director Kamal Tabrizi is one of Iranian cinema's most prolific storytellers, known for blending genre craft with social observation. The ensemble includes Arash Majidi and Hossein Mahjoub alongside celebrated performers Niki Karimi, Golchehreh Sajjadie, Saeid Rad, Parivash Nazarieh, Babak Hamidian, and Leila Zare — a cast that spans several generations of respected Iranian screen talent.
Context & significance
For diaspora audiences, Rostam Va Haft Gordan carries the weight of lived family memory. The decades it covers — the Allied occupation, the political ferment of the 1950s, the White Revolution, and the lead-up to 1979 — shaped the generation that eventually left Iran. The series offers a rare chance to see those years dramatized from an Iranian perspective, grounded in specific social textures: Tudeh Party households, royal court manners, and religious community life, all rendered as distinct milieus that a single child passes through. It functions as a multigenerational period piece that helps younger diaspora viewers understand what their parents and grandparents lived through.
Where & how to watch
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