Hamid Djavadan

Birth : 1953-11-11, Tehran, Iran

History

Hamid Réza Javdan débute sa carrière aux Etats-Unis en 1976, au sein du Théâtre Iranien et du Living Théâtre. Il poursuit sa formation au Canada en étudiant la Comédia dell’Arte et d’autres formes théâtrales telles que le masque et l’art martial Bâlinais, la danse, le maquillage, le chant ; en France il travaille à la Cartoucherie de Vincennes ainsi qu’avec d’autres compagnies. Il met en scène de nombreuses pièces de théâtre et joue aussi en qualité d’acteur de cinéma.  Depuis 1983, il a interprété des auteurs tels que Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Marivaux, Giraudoux, J.C Carrière, W.B Yeats, Lorca, Aziz néçin… ainsi que des auteurs Iraniens : Hedayat, Saedi, Yalfani, Maki … Il a aussi travaillé sur des textes anciens comme Kalila et Dimna et les épopées de Gilgamesch , Chahnameh et L’Iliade.  Citoyen du monde, inspiré par différentes écoles théâtrales, il poursuit toujours sa quête entre théâtre occidental et oriental.

Movies

Some Like It Veiled
M. Yaghmaian
Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, are a young couple. They plan to go to New York to do their internship at the United Nations. But when Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, returns from a long stay in Yemen, which radically transformed him, he is opposed to his sister's love relationship and decides to remove him at any cost from Armand. To enter Mahmoud and see again Leila, Armand has no choice: he must slip the integral veil! The next day, a certain Scheherazade with a veiled face rings at the door of Leila, and she will not leave Mahmoud indifferent ...
Under the Shadow
Mr. Fakur
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
As Above, So Below
Reza
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
The Patience Stone
The man
In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.