Azita Hajian

Acting

Azita Hajian

Born January 11, 1958 · Tehran, Iran (age 68)

She was born on 10 January 1958 in Narmak, Tehran. She graduated in theatre acting and directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Tehran, Azita Hajian started stage acting in 1975 and film acting in 1989 with Thief of Dolls (Mohammad Reza Honarmand). Due to her theatrical background in the field of children and teenagers, her first films were in the same field. She is one of the major teacher …

Known For

180 Degree Rule180 Degree Rule · 2020
180 Degree Rule
★ 8.02020
MovieDrama
A school teacher from Tehran is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran. When her husband suddenly forbids her to go, she makes a choice that will place her on a painful path to atonement.
ShirinShirin · 2009
Shirin
★ 6.22009
MovieDrama
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
The TurtleThe Turtle · 2025
The Turtle
2025
MovieDrama
Beneath a psychiatrist’s composed exterior lies a fear of abandonment and a growing unease. When a sudden death brings an enigmatic figure from the past back into his life, the balance of his carefully ordered world begins to slip.
Elixir and DustElixir and Dust · 2008
Elixir and Dust
2008
Movie
ran is on the verge of civil revolution. The airport is closed and all international flights are canceled. There are so many people trying to leave Iran with the last flight: a wounded protester with his wife, a young man longing to go to France to search for his fiance;, a nomad - an old man carrying top secret documents for the revolutionaries abroad, a young clerg...
The Red RibbonThe Red Ribbon · 1999
The Red Ribbon
★ 6.31999
MovieDramaWar
A man and a woman fight over the rights to a property.
Dead WaveDead Wave · 2001
Dead Wave
★ 5.52001
MovieDramaWar
Even after ten years, Lieutenant Morteza Rashed still has nightmares of corpses and dolls floating around after the fall of the Airbus plane by those who served aboard USS Vincennes at 1988. He has been holding a grudge towards them ever since they attacked this plane, and is always looking for an opportunity to take revenge...
The ActorThe Actor · 1993
The Actor
★ 5.51993
MovieComedyDrama
An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant.
AvinarAvinar · 1992
Avinar
1992
MovieWarDrama
Tiwa Bashir, an old mule driver familiar with the hidden and untraveled roads, is hired by a goldsmith who has been blinded by a chemical bombardment. The goldsmith is worried about what he has with him and his distrust of the mule driver, and this worry increases when other injured people join him, and this is just the beginning of a terrifying and devastating journey.

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The Path of GloryThe Path of Glory · 1995
The Path of Glory
★ 4.01995
Movie
The Tangfani Pump House (Tangfani Oil Transfer Center), which was bombed several times during the Iran-Iraq War and then rebuilt, was once again targeted by Iraqi aircraft when it was opened and severely damaged. The National Oil Company officials believe that the only way to restart this important pump house, which is responsible for delivering crude oil to the country's three major refineries, is to move it underground. Specialists and workers, dressed as nomads, begin working underground, and Engineer Yeganeh is called to the area to direct the operation. In the meantime, several Iraqi regime spies, seeing the apparent halt in the reconstruction of the previous pump house, become suspicious of the movements and send one of their men to obtain information from Engineer Yeganeh through threats...