Turaj Mansuri

Turaj Mansuri

Birth : 1954-01-01, Tehran, Iran

History

Turaj Mansuri is an Iranian cinematographer, director and producer. He is the current president of the Iranian Society of Cinematographers.

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Turaj Mansuri

Movies

Laleh
Producer
Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.
Bench Cinema
Producer
Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man show on a bench. Gradually he forms a theatre group called Cinema Bench...
Bench Cinema
Director of Photography
Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man show on a bench. Gradually he forms a theatre group called Cinema Bench...
Facing Mirrors
Director of Photography
Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
Facing Mirrors
Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
Crime
Director of Photography
Between years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to compromise on his believes. He is imprisoned and then after 2 years released but involved in the Islamic Revolution.
Private
Cinematography
Our city has become that much big that none of the many highways are enough to make our ways shorter. At the end of each way, we have already forgotten our everyday preoccupations. We have gradually forgotten how to see the hidden pains before…
The Song of Sparrows
Director of Photography
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
دعوت
Cinematography
a film about how attitude dissimilar family against abortion .....
The Music Man
Director of Photography
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
Empty Hands
Cinematography
Maryam's husband has been a prisoner of war for many years. Maryam leaves the house at night, her daughter suspicious of her. An anonymous call from Maryam's relationship with a stranger says.
The Choice
Director
The choice of the name of the film is directed by Touraj Mansouri. This film is a product of Iran and produced in 2004
Mum's Guest
Cinematography
A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.
The Silent King
Cinematography
In the beginning of the World War I, Iran’s government decides to remain neutral in order to save the country from further damage. But the countries in war, especially the allied powers (Russia and Britain) and the axis powers (Germany and the Ottoman Empire) ignore Iran’s stance and turn the country into their political and military battlefield. In this situation the young Ahmad Shah Qajar, Iran’s king, feels helpless facing these highly experienced foreign politicians. The young king remembers nothing from his childhood or teen years, and during one of the toughest historical points of Iran when the Russians and the British politicians interfere with most of Iran’s internal affairs to the point of affecting Iranian people’s personal lives, he meets Konts de Gotti, the daughter of Austria’s prime minister in Iran ...
The Poisonous Mushroom
Cinematography
Doman Ghaemi, a former commander in the Iran-Iraq war, is now the director of a construction company. Sometimes he remembers some illusory memories from war, during which the values of those years come to his mind. These values are in conflict with his current society and situation. Soleyman, his friend of war years, who now stays in a mental hospital, makes an emphasis on his values by entering the life of Doman again. At the meantime, Doman happens to meet a girl called Bita ...
Takhti
Self
Ali Hatami's film on the life of Iranian wrestling champion Takhti remains unfinished. Another director is assigned by the I.R. Intelligence Ministry to finish the project. The new director wants to carry out research on the life of the champion, and it would seem that he will have to solve numerous problems before he can finish the job.
Battle of Oil Tankers
Cinematography
During Iran-Iraq war the Iraqi army was attacking the Iranian oil tankers repeatedly. A young captain decides to pass an oil tanker through the enemy lines and deliver it to overseas. He ...
Baziche
Producer
Baziche
Director
The Lady
Cinematography
Maryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.
Hamoon
Director of Photography
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Eye of the Hurricane
Cinematography
During the Second World War and the occupation of Iran by the Allied army, Dr. Rastan goes to Ih Qashqai to treat his sister's husband. There, he is introduced to Amir Houshang, the elders of the tribal elders, and Ghobad's rebels. He returns to Shiraz. His younger brother, Ali, has been thrown into the city, and ...
The Man Who Knew too Much
Assistant Director
A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities and return to his honorable life.