Turaj Mansuri

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Turaj Mansuri

Born January 1, 1954 · Tehran, Iran (age 72)

Turaj Mansuri is an Iranian cinematographer, director and producer. He is the current president of the Iranian Society of Cinematographers.

Known For

The Man Who Knew too MuchThe Man Who Knew too Much · 1984
The Man Who Knew too Much
8.01984
MovieDrama
A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities and return to his honorable life.
Eye of the HurricaneEye of the Hurricane · 1989
Eye of the Hurricane
7.01989
MovieHistoryWar
During the Second World War and the occupation of Iran by the Allied army, Dr. Rastan goes to Ih Qashqai to treat his sister's husband. There, he is introduced to Amir Houshang, the elders of the tribal elders, and Ghobad's rebels. He returns to Shiraz. His younger brother, Ali, has been thrown into the city, and ...
The Music ManThe Music Man · 2007
The Music Man
6.92007
MovieMusicDrama
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
Facing MirrorsFacing Mirrors · 2012
Facing Mirrors
6.12012
MovieDrama
Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
Moses The Kalimullah: At DawnMoses The Kalimullah: At Dawn · 2025
Moses The Kalimullah: At Dawn
6.52025
MovieHistoryDrama
A Pharaoh dreams of a future conqueror who will threaten his rule. As persecution begins, Moses is born secretly and rescued from Infanticide. Raised under divine guidance, he matures to confront tyranny and lead his people toward liberation.
PrivatePrivate · 2010
Private
2010
MovieDrama
Our city has become that much big that none of the many highways are enough to make our ways shorter. At the end of each way, we have already forgotten our everyday preoccupations. We have gradually forgotten how to see the hidden pains before…
The Song of SparrowsThe Song of Sparrows · 2008
The Song of Sparrows
7.52008
MovieDrama
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
The Guidance PatrolThe Guidance Patrol · 2012
The Guidance Patrol
5.52012
MovieDramaComedy
Three urban working poor young men who impersonate crew of a Guidance Patrol to earn money.

Filmography

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The Man Who Knew too MuchThe Man Who Knew too Much · 1984
The Man Who Knew too Much
8.01984
MovieDrama
A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities and return to his honorable life.

Assistant Director

Trial on the StreetTrial on the Street · 2009
Trial on the Street
6.62009
MovieDrama
Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's devastating claim that his future wife is not the sexually innocent girl he believed. In a mixture of rage and bafflement, he takes the bride to the wedding place and then departs to reveal the truth about her past. At the same time, a guy named Nekooyi, the owner of a broken company gets stabbed by his friend who seems to have an affair with his wife, Nasim. To get to the airport and leave the country they take a taxi, driven by nobody but the guy sought by Amir...

Director of Photography

The Silent KingThe Silent King · 2003
The Silent King
1.02003
MovieHistoryDrama
In the beginning of the World War I, Iran’s government decides to remain neutral in order to save the country from further damage. But the countries in war, especially the allied powers (Russia and Britain) and the axis powers (Germany and the Ottoman Empire) ignore Iran’s stance and turn the country into their political and military battlefield. In this situation the young Ahmad Shah Qajar, Iran’s king, feels helpless facing these highly experienced foreign politicians. The young king remembers nothing from his childhood or teen years, and during one of the toughest historical points of Iran when the Russians and the British politicians interfere with most of Iran’s internal affairs to the point of affecting Iranian people’s personal lives, he meets Konts de Gotti, the daughter of Austria’s prime minister in Iran ...

Cinematography

The LadyThe Lady · 1992
The Lady
7.01992
MovieDrama
Maryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.

Cinematography