A Whale in the Bowl

1h 22m
Documentary
4.5

A documentary about Hossein Monzavi (Persian: حسين منزوی) (23 September 1946 in Zanjan, Iran – 5 May 2004 in Tehran). Monzavi was a prominent Iranian poet, essayist, and translator who had great effects on Iranian literary mutating. Monzavi's reputation is in composing poems and his lyric poems are primarily in Persian, but he also has contributed to the Azerbaijani language.

Cast

Shaghayegh Farahani
Herself
Hossein Monzavi
Himself (archive footage)
Mohammadali Bahmani
Himself
Hafez Mousavi
Himself
Behzad Farahani
Himself
Bizhan Kamkar
Himself

Crew

Naser Ghahremani
Director
Alireza Soltani
Writer
Mehdi Abbasi
Editor
Hossein Najjari
Producer

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