Director: Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian
Cast: Javad Ezzati, Rana Azadivar, Hanie Tavassoli, Saeed Changizian, Elahe Hesari
Zakhme Kari — Cinematic Version is a 2023 Iranian drama, crime, and mystery film directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, presenting the first season of the Mortal Wound series as a single unified feature running 176 minutes, built for audiences who prefer the complete story without episode breaks.
What is Zakhme Kari - Cinematic Version about?
Maleki holds a senior post at a prosperous firm controlled by the influential Rizabadi. When Rizabadi assigns him to lead negotiations on a high-stakes oil contract with a Norwegian consortium, Maleki enters a world of business where appearances and reality diverge sharply. The deal looks clean on paper, but once both parties sign and the counterparty moves to transfer the contract sum into the company's account, a sequence of unexpected complications begins to surface. What seemed like a routine commercial transaction exposes competing interests, hidden debts, and pressures that reach well beyond the conference room. Maleki finds himself caught between the demands of his employer, the expectations of a foreign partner, and forces he is only beginning to understand. The film traces how a professional obligation can quietly become something far more dangerous, pulling a careful and loyal man into decisions with consequences he cannot predict or control.
Cast & crew
Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian directs a seasoned and cohesive ensemble cast. Javad Ezzati carries the film as Maleki, delivering a performance of quiet, building pressure that holds the narrative weight. Rana Azadivar and Hanie Tavassoli bring depth to the supporting story, while Saeed Changizian, Elahe Hesari, Abbas Jamshidi Far, Mahdi Zaminpardaz, and Kazem HajirAzad fill the surrounding roles with the grounded naturalism of experienced Iranian screen performers.
Context & significance
Corporate crime drama has become one of the most discussed genres in contemporary Iranian storytelling, and Zakhme Kari sits at the center of that conversation. The series drew significant attention inside Iran for its honest look at business corruption, institutional loyalty, and the quiet erosion of personal ethics under financial pressure — themes set against the background of the oil industry, a subject that carries enormous weight in the Iranian imagination. For diaspora viewers, the film resonates on a second level: the particular texture of professional life under those conditions is immediately recognizable, and the story of a careful man gradually overwhelmed by forces larger than himself speaks across borders. Mahdavian's choice to present the season as a continuous theatrical work gives the material a dramatic arc and visual rhythm that serial watching tends to fragment. The pacing is deliberate, the moral questions are left open, and the film trusts its audience to sit with ambiguity.
Where & how to watch
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