Dash Akul

FILM INFO

Cinema: Asia, Capri, Charkh u Falak, Firuza, Lido, Neptune, Pasargard, Rangin Kaman (Rainbow), Rex, Shahvand, Sharq, Silver City, Tuska, Jaleh, Humay, Olmpia
Producers: Kavah, Hushang, Rex Cinema and Theatre Co. (Shukra’i, Muhammad-Taqi)
Actor: Jahangir Furuhar, Muhammad -Taqi Kahnamu’i, Mansur Matin, Bahman Mufid, Ibrahim Nadiri, Khusraw Sahami, Shahrzad, Bihruz Vusuqi, Jalal Pishva’iyan, Jaleh ‘Uluw, Nizamuddin Shifa’i, Muhammad Riza Rafi‘i, Mary Apick, Manuchihr Ahmadi, Kan‘an Kiyani, Sirus Yazdani
Lyricist: Turaj Nigahban
Laboratory: Filmsaz Studio
Singer: Jamal Vafaʼi_
Production Company: Rex Cinema and Theatre Co.
Musicians: Isfandyar Munfaridzadeh
Cinematographer: Ni'mat Haqqiqi
Director: Mas‘ud Kimya’i
Screenplay: Mas‘ud Kimya’i
Assistant Director: ‘Abdu’llah Ghiyabi, Taqi Shab-para
Editor (film): Mas‘ud Kimya’i, Amir-Husayn Hami
Photographer: Ja‘far Akbari
Synchronization: Amir-Husayn Hami
Mixer: Harayir Atishkar
Assistant Cinematographer: Firuz Malikzada, Muhsin Taqva’i
Electrical Technician: ‘Abbas Ardalan
Sound technician: Yura Yusifi
Managing Producer: Jalal Pishva’iyan
Makeup: Kan‘an Kiyani
Technical Director: Rama Studio
Special effects: Amir-Husayn Hami
Year: 1971 (1350)

SCENARIO

Dash Akol is adopted from a short story of the same name written by Sadegh Hedayat in his short story collection, Three Drops of Blood. Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.