Aziz Saati

Aziz Saati

Birth : 1948-05-04, Tehran, Iran

History

Aziz Saati (عزیز ساعتی) is a cinematographer and photographer from Tehran, Iran, born on the 4th of May, 1948. He graduated from the School of Television and Cinema and started his career as a still photographer. Saati is a very important figure for Iranian Cinema. He was the president and co-founder of the Society of Still Photographers in Iranian Cinema, a jury member at the Fajr Film Festival and a member of the establishing board of the Film Museum of Iran, to name a few.

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Aziz Saati

Movies

Redhat and Sarvenaz
Cinematography
This entertaining real action, puppets movie narrates the adventures of a stouthearted boy who is kidnapped by two bandits. During the abduction, he will help a girl, he meets, who has been held prisoner in her room for her entire life. After failing a course for several times, Kolah Ghermezi finally passes it and enters a higher level. He returns home and happily shows his marks to Aghaye Mojri and Narges; who are supposed to be his parents now. Aghaye Mojri promises to buy a bicycle for him as a gift. However, he does not have adequate money to buy that. The news of Kolah Ghermezi’s success is broadcasted on TV, then his uncle calls him and invites all of them to his luxurious house. He gives a nice and huge bicycle to Kolah Ghermezi as a gift.
The Last Supper
Cinematography
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected by society.
Minoo Watch Tower
Cinematography
Minoo who is married to Moosa recently, is moving to the new house. But Moosa receive a letter in which he being told to get back to the Minoo Island (a border island between Iran and Iraq), to dispatch a watch tower there from the period of war. Moosa who has a lot of memories of that place refuses to go there but his wife Minoo is insisting. Finally she manages to convince him and both go there.
The Blue-Veiled
Director of Photography
An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
The Scent of Joseph's Shirt
Cinematography
َA father, Daei Ghafur, does not accept his son's death during 1980-1988 conflict between Iran and Iraq, and believes he is alive despite all evidence indicating otherwise. One day he meets a young lady, Shirin, at the airport who has travelled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Both start searching their loved ones...
Redhat and Cousin
Cinematography
Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles.
I Love the Earth
Cinematography
An extraterrestrial recently landed on earth befriends a local taxi driver. Through a series of wacky adventures and hi-jinks, the alien begins to learn all about his galactic neighbors on Earth. Zany sci-fi comedy starring Alireza Khamse.
The Actor
Cinematography
An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant.
Gozideh tasvir dar Doran-e Qajar
Cinematography
A short documentary about the Qajar (aka Ghajar) family that ruled Iran from 1785-1925. Using rare photos and early films shot at the Shah's court, along with family portraits.
The Blade and the Silk
Still Photographer
In a meeting in Thailand, it is decided that twenty tons of heroin to be smuggled to Iran and to be pushed in schools, universities, and even the frontline. While the shipment is being moved on Iranian roads, a detective is killed in Tehran. His successor tries to find the shipment with the help from an addicted inmate and his fiancée.
Jafar Khan az farang bargashte
Still Photographer
Jafar Khan, son of a rich traditional family in Tehran, comes back to Iran after spending 8 years for studying in Europe, but he has changed completely to the extent that he cannot even speaks Farsi properly.
The Red Line
Still Photographer
During the Islamic revolution a SAVAK member Amani marries a woman her name Laleh. Laleh is a doctor and helps the injures of the revolution. Her brother is too involved in the revolution.
Ballad of Tara
Executive Producer
Tara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two young children from country to her village. On her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes grandpa’s belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one will accept. One day on the road, she meets an ancient warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to present time to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he returns upon realizing that he has fallen powerfully in love with her.