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The Glass Agency (Persian: آژانس شیشه‌ای) is a 1998 Iranian drama film written and directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia,[1] and one of his most successful works and one of the most popular and controversial films of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema.[2]

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The Glass Agency
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Directed by	Ebrahim Hatamikia
Written by	Ebrahim Hatamikia
Produced by	Varahonar Farabi Cinema Foundation
Starring	Parviz Parastui Reza Kianian Habib Rezaei Bita Badran
Cinematography	Aziz Saati
Edited by	Hayedeh Safiyari
Music by	Majid Entezami
Release dates	1 February 1998 (1998-02-01) (Fajr) 8 July 1998 (1998-07-08) (Iran) 19 February 1999 (1999-02-19) (BIFF)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Iran
Language	Persian

The Glass Agency is set in a travel agency where an armed veteran takes hostages after failing to raise enough money for his injured comrade to travel abroad for medical treatment. The film candidly reveals some of the major fault lines in Iranian society today. With its complex message of sympathy for the veterans and criticism of those who exploit their status for political purposes, the film has won praise from conservatives and reformists alike.[3]

Plot

Two veterans of Iran-Iraq war, Abbas and his wartime commander Kazem are the main protagonists of the film. Abbas comes to Tehran to seek medical treatment for a war injury. Kazem wants to help Abbas as the doctor recommends that he should go abroad for the operation. However, it is almost New Year's Eve, and arranging a flight becomes difficult. Kazem is suffering from hegemony which is seen in the postwar society. The problems they encounter make Kazem lose his temper, and he ends up taking a whole travel agency hostage.[4]

Cast

• Parviz Parastui as Haj Kazem
• Reza Kianian as Salahshoor
• Habib Rezaei as Abbas Heydari
• Bita Badran as Narges
• Asghar Naghizadeh as Asghar
• Ghasem Zareh as Ahmad Kuhi
• Behrouz Shoeibi as Salam
• Farshid Zarei Fard as Agency Manager
• Majid Moshiri
• Ezzatollah Mehravaran
• Nasrin Nakisa
• Mehrdad Falahatgar
• Mohammad Hatami
• Sadegh Safai

Reception

Accolades

At the 16th Fajr International Film Festival, The film won both Best Film and Audience Choice of Best Film, making it the first film in The history of cinema of Iran to win the latter. The Glass Agency also won nine Crystal Simorgh awards and a Diploma Honorary including:

• Best Film
• Best Director (Ebrahim Hatamikia)
• Best Screenplay (Ebrahim Hatamikia)
• Best Actor (Parviz Parastui)
• Best Supporting Actor (Reza Kianian)
• Best Supporting Actor Diploma Honorary (Habib Rezaei)
• Best Supporting Actress (Bita Badran)
• Best Original Score (Majid Entezami)
• Best Editor (Hayedeh Safiyari)
• Audience Choice of Best Film

and It was nominated in four other categories including:

• Best Cinematography (Aziz Saati)
• Best Sound Editing (Mohsen Roshan)
• Best Makeup (Mehrdad Mirkyani)
• Best Production Design (Hamidreza Charkchyan)

References

Further reading

• Rastegar, Kamran (2010). "The Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors?". In Thiranagama, Sharika; Kelly, Tobias (eds.). Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 188–199. ISBN 9780812205893.
• Zeydabadi-Nejad, Saeed (2009). The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the Islamic Republic. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 69–76. ISBN 9780415455374.

External links

• The Glass Agency at IMDb
• The Glass Agency at AllMovie
• The Glass Agency at AlloCiné (in French)
• The Glass Agency at Filmweb.no (in Norwegian)

• The Glass Agency on SourehCinema (in Persian)

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