Parviz Sayyad
Birthday: 1939-03-22
Place of Birth: Lahijan, Iran
Biography: Parviz Sayyad (Persian: پرویز صیاد, romanized: Parviz Sayyād; born 22 March 1939) is an Iranian-born American celebrated actor, director, translator, and screenwriter of Iranian cinema. He was one of the earliest television stars in Iran.
Movies
The Stoning of Soraya M.
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Z...
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Checkpoint
A busload of College students, returning to Michigan from a Canadian field trip, is stopped at the U...
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The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries
A satirical comedy about a poor farmer who, while plowing his field, accidentally uncovers an ancien...
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Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on S...
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Samad Becomes Prosperous
Samad is been sent to the city to work at the house of a rich guy Mr. Maghami. The rich guy wins in ...
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Samad in the Way of Dragon
Samad is to be sent to the city courthouse for his fights where he points his finger at others, and ...
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Samad Becomes Homeless
Samad goes to the city with his donkey on the advice of his grandmother to learn an industrial job w...
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Samad be madreseh miravad
In the village where Samad lives, the "Fighting Illiteracy" organization organizes a literacy class ...
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Far from Home
Turkish migrant Husseyin spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin...
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The Loner
Haunted by memories as a child soldier in 1980s Iran, Behrouz finds himself in bustling, neon-soaked...
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The Mission
An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under ...
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Sattar Khan
Based on the true story of the Azari war hero, Satar Khan, during the time of the Constitutional Rev...
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The Falconet
During an attack in a caravansary in which all the soldiers die, three people manage to flee. After ...
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Liberation
In 1979, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the country's Islamic Revolution. Forced into exile, he ...
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The Suitor
Mr. Khavari, a calligraphy teacher who is the tenant of an aristocratic family has fallen in love wi...
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The Lantern of Imagination
"Fanoos Khiyal", with a brief introduction from illustration in Persian literature to mezzanine in I...
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Mozaffar
Mozaffar, the self-proclaimed poet and inventor has fallen in love with Goli. Goli has an older, ri...
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Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre
Samad burns an ogre's hair which causes an 8000 years old ogre to be released from his prison. The o...
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Hassan, the Bald
Inspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the ...
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Slaughterhouse
Mohammad meets a woman Fakhri in a café and decides to go with her to the north. He invites his frie...
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Tehran, an Unfinished History
Tehran's untold sociopolitical history through rare, unseen film archives spanning over a century....
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Samad and Sami, Leyla and Lili
While the village headman and Mashhadi Bagher want to marry Leyla off to Eynollah, Leyla runs away a...
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