Thirteen Cats on the Hot Gabled Roof

Thirteen Cats on the Hot Gabled Roof
Directed byAli Abdolali Zadeh
Screenplay byFarzana Shabina, Ali Abdullah Zadeh, Majid Farmland
Story byFarzana Shabina, Ali Abdullah Zadeh, Majid Farmhand
Produced byYousef Samadzadeh
StarringMohammad Reza Golzar
Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
Mahnaz Afshar
Merila Zarei
Hesam Navab Safavi
Sirus Gorjestani
Mahmoud Bahrami
Mahmoud Jafari
Nima Fallah
Gohar Kheirandish
CinematographyAli Allahyari
Edited byKamran Ghadakchian
Music byKaren Homayounfar
Release date
  • 15 September 2004 (2004-09-15)
Running time
90 Minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian
Budget﷼1,000,000,000 (estimated)[1]

Thirteen Cats on the Hot Gabled Roof (2004), also known as Sizdah gorbe roye shirvani, is a Persian film directed by Ali Abdolali Zadeh.[2] It was written by Ali Abdolali Zadeh, Farzaneh Shabani, and Majid Farazmand, and produced by Yousef Samadzadeh. The film won the 22nd Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) Award.[3][4]

Synopsis

On a planet called Samurai, an important King makes a pact with the Devil. In return for his fertility, the King gives the Devil permission to choose a husband for his first-born daughter. When the King's daughter grows up, the Devil chooses a weak man as her husband. The King, along with all his daughters, is then cursed to become a cat, except for his youngest, Oudeka. In a quest for power and with a desire to reclaim her kingdom, Oudeka flees to Earth, escaping from the Devil. Several years later, Oudeka sends an agent named Ramu to planet Samurai to find her oldest sister and her fiancé to defeat their enemy.[3]

Awards

The film received an award for Best Visual Effects in Iran's 22nd Fair International Film Festival (FIFF). Yousef Samadzadeh, the film's visual effects artist, also received an honors award at the festival.[4]

The film was also nominated for Best Visual Effects (Amirreza Motamedi) and Best Soundtrack (Karen Homayounfar) during the 8th Khane Cinema film competition.[5]

List of film set crew (2004)

Directors

  • Director: Ali Abdolali Zadeh
  • Assistant Directors: Hassan Laffafian, Reza Shahriary
  • Manager: Hassan Laffafian
  • Script Supervisors: Fatemeh Nasseri, Hengameh Farazmand

Cast[2]

Production team

  • Producer and Production Manager: Yousef Samadzadeh
  • Project Executor: Hamidreza Samadzadeh
  • Production Manager substitute: Davoud Nazemi

Film crew

  • Filming Manager: Ali Allahyari
  • Lighting: Shahram Najjarian
  • Camera Assistants: Ali Kangarlou, Jalal Alifekr, Kaveh Haaj Ramezani
  • Editor: Kamran Ghadakchian
  • Art Director: Siamak Ehsaei
  • Costume Designer: Fereshteh Reshad
  • Makeup Artist: Jalaluddin Moayerian

Music

  • Music Composer: Karen Homayounfar
  • Drums: Arash Farazmand †
  • Guitars: Pouya Hosseini
  • Bass: Soheil Soheili

Sound

References

  1. ^ "Thirteen Cats on the Hot Gabled Roof". IMDb.
  2. ^ a b "30th Festival Announces the Selection Committee Members". International Film Festival For Children and Youth. International Film Festival For Children and Youth. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b Pournasiri, Hamidreza (10 January 2004). "City under the Cats' Power". www.hamidreza.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Iran: 22nd International Fajr Film Festival ends in Tehran". Peyvand. Peyvand. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  5. ^ "22nd Int'l Fajr Film Festival's Award Winners Announced". Mehr News Agency. Mehr News Agency. 13 February 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2018.