Mushegh Sarvari

After being fired from his job, Hassan, a young daydreamer ekes out a living making masks of Haji Jabbar, the main character of 'Party in Hell'. Hassan is in love with a rich man's daughter, but when he asks for her hand, the rich man sends him and his friend away in a humiliating way. At night Haji Jabbar's apparition visits Hassan and takes him on an overnight trip to Paris...

Haji Jabbar is a wealthy man, who is chided constantly by his family for avarice. Haji intends to marry off his daughter, Parvin, to a wealthy old man. He has no regard for the love existing between Parvin and her cousin. He does not care for his son, Hamid, who, due to negligence, is on the verge of a breakdown. In an elaborate fantasy sequence which makes up the last third of the film, Haji finds himself in hell, witness to all sorts of macabre and elaborate tortures and horrors. The film is noted for its elaborate set pieces which recall Méliès. There is even a sequence involving Hitler in hell!