Zakaria Hashemi (Persian: زکریا هاشمی; born in 1936 in Rey, Tehran Province, Iran) is an Iranian actor and film director.
Early life
editHashemi spent his childhood in southern Tehran.[1]
Career
editHe has acted in several films including The Night of the Hunchback, The Brick and the Mirror. He also directed some films, like The Gamble. In the film The Brick and the Mirror (dir. Ebrahim Golestan), Hashemi plays a taxi driver named Hashem who finds a baby in the back of his cab, left by a woman in a black chador (Forough Farrokhzad).[2]
Filmography
editAs actor:
- South of the City (1958)
- The Night of the Hunchback (1958)
- The Brick and the Mirror (1965)
- Diamond 33 (1966)
- Goodbye Friend (1971)
- Topoli (1972)
- Kaniz (1974)
- Sanjar (1976)
- Charlotte be bazarche miayad (1977)
- Tuti (1978)
- Hokm-e tir (1979)
- Paygah-e jahannami (1984)
- Rooted in Blood (1984)
As director:
- Knucklebones (1971)
- Zan-e bakere (1973)
- Tuti (1978)
Books
edit- The Parrot
References
edit- ^ Aghighi, Saeed (2012). Jahed, Parviz (ed.). "The Gamble". Directory of World Cinema: Iran. 10. UK: Intellect Ltd.: 122–123. ISSN 2040-7971.
- ^ Naficy, Hamid (2011). A Social History of Iranian Cinema Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941-1978. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. 358. ISBN 9780822347743.