Escapism

Seventeen days till execution.

During Iranian revolution some prisoners manage to escape the prison. In a border village they meet a man Yaqub who wants to convince them not to escape. They first mocking at him not ...

A young rich guy because of bad companies becomes alcoholic and loses all his fortune in gambling and even loses his wife. He goes wandering the streets alone with his son. But in an accident he loses his son too and eventually becomes blind. But finally after many years he manages to find his son and they begin together a new life.

A rich guy's driver who wants to help a poor girl who work in a cabaret introduces her as his master's fiance. She falls in love with the master without knowing his real identity. This leads all of them to face many funny adventures.

Ghalandar feels bothered by the suitors wooing for his sister Eshrat. But for a secret reason he does not want to marry her off. As a way out, he asks his trusted friend Sadegh to marry his sister, but warns him about making love with her. Sadegh tries to keep his promise, but when he leaves his wife immediately after the wedding ceremony for the capital, Eshrat follows and joins him and his mother. Unable to bear with the taunts of mother, Sadegh eventually breaks his oath and takes his legal wife to bed. Informed of this betrayal, Ghalandar waylays Sadegh at a dark night and stabs him to death. Eshrat, suspecting who is behind this murder, flees and joins a whorehouse, intent to exact her revenge by staining the name of his so-far respectable brother...

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Nazim, a foreman working on a dam construction, falls in love with Aysel, the most beautiful girl of the local brothel. Too shy to identify himself, Nazim sends her love letters, signing as Orhan, one of his employees - and a man with not many scruples... When Aysel arrives on the construction site, the deception does not last long. It all ends in a happy marriage. Only, it's not the end yet.

Baba Shamal and Looti Heydar, two community leaders of adjacent neighbourhoods make a pact of fraternity. Baba Shamal's high attitude of Heydar however dramatically changes when he is told that Heydar has been enamoured with Shokat, the girl Baba Shamal has just wed,...

"Fanoos Khiyal", with a brief introduction from illustration in Persian literature to mezzanine in Iranian miniatures and folk paintings, introduces the first camcorder in Iran and shows the first available films. After that, with the development of theaters in Iran, the production of movies begins. Iranian filmmakers in this field have a variety of experiences that result in technical advances and a variety of styles.

1322 Islamic Calendar year; Iran before the constitutional revolution. People have formed a revolutionary committee to fight Khan. Cossack brigades are torturing and executing people, and Sheikh Saleh and his brother Esrafil with the help of an old man named Khajeh Isaa are prepared to fight against Khan and his steward Hollakoo.

"Mehdi" is in love with a woman named "Parvin," who has a daughter from her previous marriage that she has hidden. Mehdi and Parvin get married, but the presence of an evil man named "Hashem" disrupts their peaceful life. Mahdi becomes lost, and Parvin ends up working as a dancer in cabarets.

1934. A barber is suffering from high prices and his difficult situation. He has eleven children, and his pregnant wife gives birth to twins. The man, who believes in the bad luck of the number thirteen, leaves one of the twins in the car of a young couple, unaware that his thirteenth child has remained with him. The young couple adopts the baby and takes it to Abadan.

Madadali has been interested in Ra'na for years, but the girl's father, Mash Yadollah, and her mother agree to marry their daughter to Lotfollah.