Ali Nasirian
Birthday: 1935-02-05 Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Synopsis
Ali Nasirian is an actor, writer, and director of the theatre, cinema and television who was born in 1935 in Tehran, Iran. He began his professional work with theatre and writing plays. After that, he directed the theatre and telefilm. He entered the cinema by playing in Dariush Mehrjui's "Cow". He also received the Best Actor's Crystal Simorgh from the Fajr Festival for Homayoun Ghanizade's "Maskhare Baz".In recent years, Ali Nasirian has had many activities in television series such as "Sarbedaran", "Hezar Dastan", "Mive-ye Mamnooe" and "Shahrzad".The movies that he has featured are "Captain Khorshid", "the Emperor of Hell", "The Stone Lion" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Acting
Sun Children
The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located.
Iron Island
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?
The Cow
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
