Night of the Hunchback (1965) شب قوزی غفاری

Shabe Quzi (Persian: شب قوزی; literally Night of the Hunchback) is a 1965 Iranian film comedy film directed and produced by Farrokh Ghaffari. The film script was based on a story from One Thousand and One Nights, but arranged for modern city life in Tehran. This was Ghaffari s third film after Jonube Shahr (The South of the City) and Arous Kodumeh (Which One is Bride) which both didn t have a good grossing. Jalal Moghaddam (another intellectual film director) and George Lichensky (an IranianAssyrian cinematographer) encouraged Ghaffari to make this film. At first the story was set in the medieval times as in the ancient stories of One Thousand and One Nights occurred. However, the censorship office forced Ghaffari to turn the story of the film to a modern setting. Pari Saberi as The hostess Paria Hatami Khosrow Sahami as Ahmad the hunchback Mohammad Ali Keshavarz as Jamal, The smuggler Zakaria Hashemi as Police officer Farrokh Ghaffari as Manuch