Zakaria Hashemi

Zakaria Hashemi (Persian: زکریا هاشمی‎; born in 1936 in Rey, Iran ) is an Iranian actor and film director.

Early life

Hashemi spent his childhood in southern Tehran.[1]

Career

He 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

As 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:

Books
  • The Parrot
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References
  1. Aghighi, Saeed (2012). Jahed, Parviz (ed.). "The Gamble". Directory of World Cinema: Iran. UK: Intellect Ltd. 10: 122–123. ISSN 2040-7971.
  2. 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.
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