Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan (1994): Cast, Story & Where to Watch in Persian

Where can I watch Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan in Persian?

Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan streams on Ktime, the Persian streaming service built for the Iranian diaspora. It plays in its original Persian audio. You can watch it in any browser at ktime.app/app, on the native Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV app, on the Android phone app, in any IPTV player using your Xtream login, and on a Samsung or LG smart TV through Media Station X. No VPN is needed anywhere, including from inside Iran, and there is no geo-block to work around. Viewers inside Iran pay in USDT through the Telegram desk at t.me/KtimeSaleBot?start=film_page, and the /fa/iran page walks through every step. A paid plan covers one device at a time — a single stream — and you can switch between your TV, phone and laptop as often as you like at no extra cost. You can cancel at any time. It is a 1994 comedy film from Iran. The film is served from Ktime's own library rather than linked out to another service. Availability checked as of September 2026.

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A man frozen solid during the First World War opens his eyes in 1990s Tehran, and nothing — not the money, not the manners, not even his own family's garden — works the way he remembers. Akbar Abdi headlines this 1994 Iranian time-slip comedy from director Dariush Moaddabian.

What is Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan about?

Gholi belongs to a traditional Tehrani household in the years of the First World War, a world of courtyards, samovars and strict family hierarchy. A freak mishap sends him tumbling into a vat of ice in the family garden, where he freezes solid and vanishes from everyone's memory. Roughly eight decades later the block is uncovered on the same grounds, and Gholi comes to — perfectly preserved and utterly bewildered — in the Iran of 1994. From there the comedy mines the gap between two eras: a man raised on old-Tehran etiquette must decode traffic, television, new money and descendants who have never heard of him, while the modern family scrambles to figure out what to do with an ancestor who looks younger than his own grandchildren.

About the cast

Akbar Abdi, among the most recognisable comic actors of Iranian cinema, carries the fish-out-of-time premise with his trademark rubber-faced warmth. Around him the household fills out with Manouchehr Hamedi, Hossein Kasbian, Ziba Naderi and the veteran Shahla Riahi, alongside Khosro Dastgir, Mansoor Vala Magham and Ramin Poor Iman.

Context & significance

Director Dariush Moaddabian is known in Iran above all as a man of the theatre — a translator and stager of French comedy — and that stage instinct shows in the film's reliance on situation, misunderstanding and verbal play. The title winks at Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, though the plot owes more to the frozen-man comedies that circulated worldwide in the early nineties. Shot in the same Iranian calendar year in which its hero wakes up and released the following spring, the picture now doubles as a time capsule of mid-nineties Tehran, seen through the eyes of a man who last walked the city before radio existed.

Watching Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan on Ktime

Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan streams on K-Time with a free account login; this page itself is open to read without signing in. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking viewers outside Iran, with a fully Farsi interface across TV, web and mobile.

Cast & crew

Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan is a 1994 comedy film from Iran. It was directed by Dariush Moaddabian. The cast is led by Akbar Abdi, Manouchehr Hamedi, Hossein Kasbian. It runs 94 minutes. These credits come from this title's own record in the Ktime catalogue, refreshed with every six-hour catalogue sync.

Director

Dariush Moaddabian

Cast

Akbar Abdi, Manouchehr Hamedi, Hossein Kasbian, Ziba Naderi, Shahla Riahi, Khosro Dastgir, Mansoor Vala Magham, Ramin Poor Iman

Country

Iran

Year

1994

Runtime

94 min

Genre

Comedy

Frequently asked questions

Who directed Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan?

The film was directed by Dariush Moaddabian and released in 1994. It runs about 94 minutes.

What is the film about?

It is a comedy about Gholi, a Tehrani man who freezes in a vat of ice during the First World War and is revived eighty years later, forced to navigate 1990s Iran with the habits of another century. Akbar Abdi plays the lead.

Is this related to Shakespeare's play?

Only in the title. The name echoes A Midsummer Night's Dream, but the story is an original Iranian comedy of time travel by accident, not an adaptation.

Where can I watch it online?

You can watch it on K-Time with a free account login. The service is aimed at the Iranian diaspora and the whole experience is available in Farsi.

What year was Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan made?

Royaie Nime Shab-e Tabestan was released in 1994 and is available to stream in Persian on Ktime.