A look at Ashurai movies/ few but fruitful
Fars News Agency – Cinema Group: The most important religious event in the history of Iranians is the event of Ashura, which, due to its importance and wide dimensions, has a high visual capacity, but during these years, this huge capacity has not been properly utilized as it should be, and this has various reasons. . The construction of historical and religious works related to the Ashura event requires a large budget, which is natural, this is not the responsibility of the private sector, and the radio and television and government organizations must invest in the construction of such works.
However, since the victory of the Islamic Revolution until today, there have been admirable films and series that have attracted general and special viewers. The share of cinema is less compared to television, but in any case, appreciable works have been made in cinema. The movies “Evening of the Event”, “Evening of the 10th Day” and “Resurrection” are successful examples centered on Ashura, and we have taken a look at the most important films made in this field and the films that have been influenced by this great event.
*”Ambassador”; The first and best-selling work of Ashvari
The movie “Ambassador” by the late Fariborz Saleh can be called not only the first and best-selling Ashurai work after the revolution, but also this work can be mentioned as the first cinematic infrastructure of religious works in Iranian cinema, which gave rise to many similar works in cinema. and provided a national image.
The narration of the film “Qays Ibn Mashar” is the representative of Imam Hussein (AS) who goes to Kufa with a letter for “Suleiman Khaza’i” and on the way he is arrested and imprisoned by the highwaymen of “Ibn Ziyad”, the governor of Kufa. Qais destroys the letter before the arrest and in the prison, the prisoners fight against the prison guards.
Hossein Ibn Nimir, the commander of the highwaymen, transfers Qays to Ibn Ziyad prison in Kufa. At the suggestion of his adviser, Ibn Ziyad, Khalid asks Qays to give a speech in the mosque and falsely tell the people that the Imam intends to pledge allegiance to Yazid. Qays accepts, but on the promised day, he gives a speech against Yazid. Ibn Ziyad, who got angry even after suppressing the people, threw Qays down from the top of the Ark tower and martyred him.
This film was made in difficult and exhausting conditions and with limited facilities. At first, this film was supposed to be made as a 70-minute television work, which eventually became a movie. Taking into account the time conditions of the first years of the revolution, in a situation where the production and screening in Iranian cinema is still undecided, Saleh decides to establish a kind of transformation in the production process of the early years of the revolution by making this film in Iranian cinema, which of course succeeded in this way. And every time it is replayed on TV, it has many viewers.
*”Event Day”, a direct narration of Ashura
“Event Day” by Shahram Asadi can be considered the only film that has a direct narration of Ashura, and it has been aired many times on TV during the days of Tasua and Ashura, and it can be considered a staple of television these days.
“The Day of the Event” tells the story of Abdullah, a young Christian who has just converted to Islam and has his heart in love with Rachel, Zayd’s daughter. During his wedding with Rahela, he hears a voice that calls him for help, Abdullah rushes from desert to desert, oasis to oasis, towards Karbala and reaches there during Ashura evening, and at that time he sees the truth on the head of the spear.
“The Day of the Event” is written by Bahram Bayzaei, and by placing symbolic elements in his narrative and staying away from the center of gravity of history (i.e. showing the Ashura event itself), he has been able to show common beliefs without sensitivity, and by creating a world Symbolic and mythological, keep its sub-narratives and dramatic elements away from the sting of logic and the truth of history. Alireza Shujanoori, Mehdi Fathi, Ezzatullah Tzamami, Jamshid Meshaikhi, Siamak Atlasi, Jaleh Alou, etc. are playing.
* “Rastakhir” is well made, impressive and Ashurai
The most important film after “The Day of the Event” that directly deals with the events of Karbala and Ashura is “Restakhiz” directed by Ahadreza Darwish. A film that was shown for the first time in the 32nd Fajr Film Festival and won 8 Simorghs and finally, after 8 years of its making, it was shown online at the same time as the birth anniversary of Hazrat Abbas (AS) in 1400. given.
Of course, “Resurrection” was released earlier in the summer of 2014 in the cinemas of the country, but it was immediately criticized by some imitation authorities and was pulled from the cinema screens. These criticisms were directed at showing the face of Hazrat Abbas (a.s.) in this film, which was released after the problems were resolved.
This film narrates the historical period from the death of Muawiyah to the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) on the day of Ashura from the point of view of Bakir bin Hur (son of Hur bin Yazid Riahi).
Arash Asefi (Bakir bin Hur), Pouria Poursarakh (guardianship of the son of Omar bin Saad), Hassan Pourshirazi (Umar bin Saad), Farhad Qahimian (Har bin Yazid Riahi), Babak Hamidian (Obaidullah bin Ziyad and Yazid bin Muawiyah), Bahadur Zamani ( Hazrat Abolfazl al-Abbas), Saeed Alipour, Hazrat Ali Akbar) are considered as the main actors of this film, of course Arab actors were also not without benefits from “Resurrection” and people like Jamal Suleiman, Talhat Hamdi, Rizwan Aghili and Fawaz Sarwar from Syria, Dawood Hossein From Kuwait, Javad Al-Shekarchi from Iraq and Fadi Ibrahim from Lebanon have played roles in this film. This film was edited by Tariq Anwar and composed by Stephen Warbeck.
*”Flying in the Night”; Successful integration of sacred defense with Ashura concepts
“Flying in the Night” is one of the famous works of the late Malaqlipour, in which the performance of Farajullah Selahshor is interesting. In this film, Malaqlipour was able to bring a part of the meaning of holy defense and its combination with the high concepts of Ashura into war cinema while attracting a mass audience.
This director was able to win the best film award of the 5th Fajr Film Festival by making this film, which was also his first production experience. He later said about this film: “Flying in the Night was the result of a time of my loneliness and solitude in relation to my past and the border that brought me into professional cinema. How did it go and how was I? When and where was I and where am I supposed to go now? Like the tank of a car that is empty and pat-pat, when you start it, it will walk for about two or three meters. I needed to recharge and the night flight recharged me. filled my tank He taught me a good lesson. I cried, fought and sometimes even felt sorry for his heroes. Perhaps one of the reasons for its success was that I benefited from an inexhaustible support like Nahj al-Balagheh.
*”Afq”: another look at Ashura
“Afq” is another film by the late Rasool Malaqlipour, which uses Ashura and its events as the basis of a holy defense story, and depicts the attempt of a fighter named Nusrat to destroy the Al-Aamiyeh platform, during which Nusrat alone went on a reconnaissance and photo mission. Take off from the pier. Her comrade, Ahmed, who knows Nusrat is sick, goes after her. They are encircled by the enemy. Ahmed lets Nusrat escape and is himself arrested and killed, and with the information provided by Nusrat to the soldiers, the Al-Amiya dock is finally destroyed by the soldiers of the IRGC and Basij.
In “Afq”, Jahanbakhsh Soltani, Seyyedjavad Hashemi, Mehrzad Noshirvani, Ali Daghikian, Hamid Salehin play roles.
*”Because of Haniyeh”
In 1973, Kiyomarth Pourahmad made “For the sake of Haniyeh”. Captain Alou goes to the sea with 14 other men to fish, but all but the captain are caught in the sea, and the people consider Captain Alou to be the cause of the death of their loved ones and attack him and his family, and in the meantime, the captain’s young daughter Nieh becomes paralyzed. Nakhda and his family leave Tengak and go to Bushehr. Nakhada Alu has vowed that he will take a bath on the night of the 10th of Muharram until the morning so that he will be healed, but death will not spare him. After the captain, his son decides to continue his father’s vow to heal his sister, but he finds it difficult to drink water. In Muharram, he is assigned to go to Tengak and bring the cradle of the Muharram ceremony to Bushehr. But in Tengak, the news of Captain Alou’s arrival reaches everyone and these children set out to take revenge and harass Bashiro, but he brings the cradle to its destination with great courage. He, who is thinking of praying until dawn, happens to be imprisoned in the warehouse of the pilgrim of Khazar, where Muharram items are kept, and in this way, he succeeds in attaining prayer and praying until dawn, thus fulfilling his vow.
Mahosh Afsharpanah, Abbas Alizadeh, Ali Ghorbani, Mehdi Faqih, Amina Barani and Rahim Houdi have played roles in this movie.
*”The Path Traveled”
Another film made about Ta’zia is Abbas Rafei’s “Way Traveled”, which was made based on Farhad Toheidi’s screenplay and starring Shaghaeeq Farahani and Pejman Bazghi. In this film, a French group comes to Iran in order to choose a Ta’zieh performance for the Avignon Festival and to make a documentary film about the stages of preparing and performing Ta’zieh. The presence of this group causes incidents between the impersonators and the impersonators of taziye, in such a way that it pushes taziye to the border of closure.
It should be mentioned that Masoud Atyabi’s “Masab Doshezeh”, Parviz Sheikh Tadi’s “Sine Red”, Fereydoun Hasanpour’s “Me and Zeba”, Mehdi Hashemi’s “White Wings” and Hasan Najafi’s “The Missing Share” have somehow alluded to the great event of Ashura. .
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