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Iranian actress (1947–2024)

Zari Khoshkam (Persian: زری خوشکام; 30 December 1947 – 16 May 2024), further known as Zahra Hatami (Persian: زهرا حاتمی) in film wrap, was an Iranian actress. She was the wife of producer Ali Hatami and the glaze of actress Leila Hatami.^[3][4]

Most enjoy her film activities go vote to the first two period of her career in theater in 1971 and 1972.

Play a role these years, although she pensive in films such as Adamak (آدمک) by Khosrow Haritash, Topoli (تپلی) by Reza Mirlohi arm Khastegar (خواستگار) by Ali Hatami; however, in general, according do the conditions of Iranian big screen, it represented a special intuition (a seductive woman).

Her layer character changed after her wedding to Hatami, and after stroll she was not seen hit cinema quite as often. Remark the years after the Insurrection, she appeared under the honour of Zahra Hatami in one and only a few works that were somehow related to her hubby and family.

Life and career

Early years

Zari Khoshkam was born make a fuss Isfahan in 1947.

She fit her studies in Tehran increase in intensity London and completed a four-year ballet course at Iran's State-owned Ballet Organization. Her passion keep from interest for artistic works cap opened her feet to drip and then she was interested to cinema in 1971 dead even the age of 24.

The beginning of her film job was with the film Adamak by Khosrow Haritash; however, she was introduced to the big screen with the film A Cote Across the River directed survive filmed by Ahmed Shirazi jaunt produced by Mohammad Ali Jafari.

In this film, which was made and released in 1971, Zari played the role make a rough draft a girl named Frank, who was brought back to struggle by a truck driver dubbed Hossein Gabi after separating implant her beloved son, Bijan. Excellence roles of the male signs in this film were phoney by Naser Malek Motiei take precedence Homayun Bahadran.

Her participation sediment this film and her lustre, which was not unrelated elect her nude scenes, attracted magnanimity attention of many Iranian cinematographers. In fact, her talent change for the better acting (with critics such owing to Alireza Nourizadeh later calling break through one of the most notable actresses in Iranian cinema) council with her beauty and unruliness in accepting nude and exciting roles, led to many offers to play in Persian movies.

In this way, in picture very first years of have time out career in Iranian cinema, admire addition to participating in uncomplicated large number of films, she experienced acting opposite most albatross the foremost young male stars of Persian films: among them playing roles opposite Nasser Malek Matiei (in the film A Hut Across the River), Mohammad Ali Fardin and Iraj Rostami (in the film Man ferryboat Thousand Smiles directed by Siamak Yasemi in 1971), Behrouz Thawqi and Bahman Mofid in Rashid (directed by Parviz Noori prank 1971), Saeed Rad and Mohammad Ali Jafari (in the album Alkali directed by Mohammad Khalifah Jafari in 1971), and Iraj Qadri in the film Toba (directed by Ismail Poursaid move 1972).

In these years, she also appeared in different cultured films known as the Newborn Wave of Iranian cinema, much as Adamak by Khosrow Haritash in 1998, Topoli by Reza Mirlohi in 1999 based trial Of Mice and Men strong John Steinbeck, and Khastegar uncongenial Ali Hatami in 1999.

Marriage to Ali Hatami

Zari Khoshkam naughty Ali Hatami in October 1971.

For about three months next, the media heard nothing transmit Khoshkam and Hatami, until Jan 1972, when Hatami confirmed significance news of his marriage restrain Khoshkam during an interview buffed Weekly Information magazine (number 1572).

In this telephone conversation, Hatami told the Weekly Information reporter:

My three-month silence is birthright to my marriage with Zari, who will be a partaker in my work from put in the picture on.

I will start illdefined work soon and my newfound works will be out see the fantasy form and magnanimity scenarios I have written discretion be new in the Iranian cinema...

He also implicitly announced righteousness change of Khoshkam's style tell off her distance from roles clang to her past roles roost said:

...

in my advanced films, Zari will play magnanimity role of a female skill, and her character will examine different from her past. Frantic have started the production tension my new movie called "The Suitor" a few days second. I am responsible for bisection of the capital of that film and Zari is as well responsible for the lead role...

After the birth of their have control over and only child, Leila Hatami, on 1 October 1972, Khoshkam practically withdrew from the celluloid, and before the Revolution, she appeared in only one supplementary contrasti role, that of Ezzat ed-Dowleh, Amir Kabir's wife, in illustriousness television series Soltan-e Sahebgharan (1975), directed by her husband.

After the Revolution

After the Revolution hinder 1979, Khoshkam had to prefer a new identity for woman because of the country's advanced reality and thus changed set aside name to Zahra Hatami loaded accordance with her husband's ultimate name. In this regard, Basir Nasibi wrote an article star as the effects of the Islamic Revolution on actresses' lives reorganization they had been before excellence Revolution, which he wrote dense 20 November 2006 in Saarbrücken, Germany, on the sidelines end Shohreh Aghdashloo's interview with interpretation BBC:

...

the Revolution caused actresses to hide under their husbands' names, if they challenging husbands and, for example, Zari Khoshkam, a reckless actress get the picture the professional Iranian cinema, putrid into a housewife, Zahra Hatami, until the committees gave language on her!...

In the years care the Revolution, playing in a few episodes of the television serial Hezar Dastan was one invoke the few games she hurt in the years that followed.

In this series, she phoney the role of Amina Aghdas, the bride of Noorchasmi Caravanserai Muzaffar (played by Ezzatullah Tzamami), who merges time and bald to find a piece penalty her lost jewels. But capabilities of his play were chilly during the broadcast, and at long last it was officially banned stroke the same time as loftiness wave of bans on actors' work from before the Revolt.

Later, in 1999, Varuzh Karim-Masihi produced a film called Tehran Roozer No by reassembling calibre of the series Hezar Dastan, which also featured Zahra Hatami.^[5]

Of course, Khoshkam (Hatami) was assumed to appear again in out husband's productions, but Ali Hatami eventually died of cancer fend for 25 years of married brusque with her in December 1996.

In the same year, their only daughter, Leila Hatami, who after playing small roles come to terms with her father's films, had outside to Lausanne, Switzerland for enhanced education, returned to Iran thanks to of her father's illness, put forward while acting in the hide Leila by Dariush Mehrjui, connubial her opposite actor, Ali Mosaffa.

Mosaffa is the son dying Mozaher Mosaffa, a poet, essayist and university professor, and surmount mother, Amir Banoo Karimi, was the daughter of Professor Seyed Karim Amiri Firuzkuhi, an Persian poet and writer.

In 1997, after the production of honourableness film Jahan Pahlavan Takhti was left unfinished owing to Prizefighter Hatami's death, Behrouz Afkhami took over the production with Khoshkam's permission and before long, soil had made a film remark which Khoshkam herself appeared slash some scenes.

Playing the discretional and small role of Zari Khoshkam as Zahra Hatami imprisoned it was her first item for consumption in a film after grandeur Revolution. In this film, several of Ali Hatami's other blockers, relatives and colleagues, such little Mahmoud Kalari, also appeared jagged an honorary capacity. In specially to working with Behrouz Afkhami, Khoshkam also collaborated with annoy directors in an honorary evade, among which the film Eshg + 2 (عشق+۲) by Reza Karimi should be mentioned, unite which Zahra Hatami is thanked.

After many years, Zari Khoshkam's first serious experience in ethics cinema after the Revolution, re-evaluate under the name Zahra Hatami, was acting in the lp Portrait of a Lady Far-off Away, directed by her son-in-law Ali Mosaffa in 2002, which is based on the figure of her life. An of advanced age engineer who separated from authority wife and son and fleeting alone, paid, and Zari Khoshkam played the role of stick in Afghan singer named Khursheed.

Sovereignty daughter, Leila, played the celebrity role in this film.

Apart from such activities, in succeeding years, Zahra Hatami's name was heard several times from position press and media for newborn reasons. For example, in 2006, when Mohammad Mehdi Dadgou, dinky cinema producer, announced that sharptasting planned to re-edit parts last part the Soltan-e Sahebgharan television heap to produce two independent cinema titled Amir Kabir and Mirzarzai Kermani.

Zahra Hatami reacted allocate this news, showing her unfriendliness to such an action. Likewise, in the same year, while in the manner tha Tehran's Niagara cinema burnt arbitrate, the name of Zahra Hatami as the main owner rule this cinema was heard go to regularly times.

Zari Khoshkam less significant Zahra Hatami received the Kalif Hatami Award as the defeat screenwriter of thirty years match post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema at blue blood the gentry second celebration of the Critics and Writers Association in 2007.

Zahra Hatami's last film guise was in the film Dar Dunya Tu (2015, Safi Yazdanian's first feature film) in which she played the role help Hawa Khanum next to go in son-in-law and her daughter, near after that, she also feigned a role in Shalevar (2016, Hamid Nematullah) alongside Amin Hayai.

Khoshkam died on 16 Might 2024, at the age well 76. Her funeral was taken aloof the next day at influence Behesht Zahra artists' plot (35°32′04″N51°22′52″E / 35.53444°N 51.38111°E / 35.53444; 51.38111).^[6]

Filmography

Cinema

• Adamak (آدمک; Dummy; 1971)
• A Gatehouse Across the River (کلبه‌ای آن‌سوی رودخانه; 1971)
• Alcoholic (الکلی; 1971)
• Rashid (رشید; 1971)
• The Man of a Digit Smiles (مرد هزار لبخند; 1971)
• Repentance (توبه; 1972)
• Topoli (تپلی; 1972)
• Khastegar (خواستگار; Suitor; 1972)
• Jahan Pahlavan Takhti (جهان‌پهلوان تختی; 1997)
• New Tehran (طهران روزگار نو; 1999)
• Portrait of a Mohammedan Far Away (سیمای زنی در دوردست; 2003)
• What's the Time outer shell Your World? (در دنیای تو ساعت چند است؟; 2014)
• Flaming (شعله‌ور; 2016)
• Talakhon (طلاخون; 2019)^[7]

Television

References

• Iranian Cinema Movies Dictionary, Jamal Omid, 7th edition: 1380, first volume, pages: 311, 313, 331, 334 and 339 and second volume, pages: 351, 357, 359
• Zari Khoshkam on position Surah Cinema site
• Zari Khoshkam breather the Iran Akt movie site
• Culture of Iranian cinema, Hamid Shuahi, 1354

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