Hezar Dastan
| Hezar Dastan هزاردستان |
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| Directed by | Ali Hatami |
| Starring |
Ezzatolah Entezami Jamshid Mashayekhi Davoud Rashidi Ali Nasirian Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz Hossein Gil Jafar Vali Zahara Hatami Jahangir Forouhar |
| Country of origin | Iran |
| Original language(s) | Persian |
| Production | |
| Running time | 720 minutes |
| Distributor | Channel 1 |
| Release | |
| Original release | 1987 |
Hezar Dastan (Persian: هزاردستان, also Romanized as Hezār Dastān) (1979-1987) is a highly popular TV series in Iran directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered an eternal work in the history of Iranian TV. Hatami established a small town as historical site in which he made Hezar Dastan. In 2006, Hezar Dastan was voted by the Association of Iranian movies and TV critics as the best Iranian TV series ever made.
Ghazarian jewelry shop is robbed by Moffatesh Shesh Angoshti (Davoud Rashidi). A set of jewelry belonging to Khan -e- Mozaffar's daughter-in-law, Amineh Aghdas (Zari Khoshkam) is among the stolen jewels. Khan -e- Mozaffar (Ezzatolah Entezami), who used to be the governor of Kerman, asks the Head of the Police (Jafar Vali) in Tehran to locate the missing jewels. Head of Police then assigns Moffatesh to find the set of jewelry. After a few unsuccessful attempts to recover the jewelry set, Moffatesh realizes that a Police Officer (Nematollah Gorji) stole the set in the process of crime.
The corrupt inspector, whose position has become shaky, retreats to Mashhad. He asserts pressure on Reza Khoshnevis, the famous calligrapher, to hand over his wealth to him. It is then that Reza recounts the story of his life under torture.
The movie was censored numerous times before it was cleared for screening by Islamic organizations in Iran.
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