Maryam and Mani
About Maryam and Mani
Maryam is holding together a large family whose house is about to be auctioned because the bank installments have not been paid. She steals a sum of money from Mani, an educated man at a company, and uses it on the family's debts. She also pays for a wedding.
Cast & crew
More about Maryam and Mani
Shahrzad wrote and directed Maryam o Mani, with Pouri Banaei in the lead. She made it in 1977. The film was banned that year and released in 1980. It is in black and white and runs 88 minutes.
Themes
Background
It was finished in the last years of the Pahlavi state and reached screens only after the 1979 revolution.
Making
The picture sat banned from 1977 until a 1980 release. Shahrzad was arrested on March 8, 1979, after filming a women's demonstration that day.
Notes
- Persian title: Maryam o Mani.
- Manoucher Ahmadi is also in the cast, with Anik Shefrazian, Hossein Khanibeik, Mohsen Mahdavi, and Jalal Pishvaian.
- One of the few Iranian features before 1979 in which a woman is the director, the writer, and the center of the story.
- Shahrzad had stopped acting in 1973 and joined the Azad Cinema Group before making this feature.
- After the revolution she lost the film materials with the rest of her archive.
Scenes
- The family's house is posted for auction.
- Maryam takes the cash from Mani and spends it on the debts and a wedding.