“The film is based on the book ‘The Gem of World Literature’ written by Azam Borujerdi, and was adapted for this project by Ahmadi,” Masud Asgari added.
“At the beginning, we planned to shoot the film in Parvin’s original house in Tehran, but, unfortunately, the house had been divided into five sections, and a large part of its architecture had been damaged. Thus, another house was selected with architecture resembling the original house,” Asgari said.
The film was commissioned by IRIB Channel 4 and is being produced by the Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization.
The Art Bureau and IRIB previously signed an agreement for the production of 52 films about Iranian luminaries, and this film on the life of Etesami is one of that series.
Anahita Nemati stars as Parvin in the film. The cast also includes Jalil Farjad, Majid Hajizadeh, Mehdi Faqih, Zohreh Hamidi, Saqi Aqili, Esfandiar Ebrahimi, Yahya Azarnush, Mohsen Gudarzi, Sadeq Tavakkoli, and Baharak Salehian.
Etesami was born in Tabriz. Her father was Mirza Yusef Etesami (Etesamolmolk) and she had three brothers.
She moved from Tabriz to Tehran with her family in 1912, and made some limited trips in Iran and to foreign countries with her family.
She went to primary school in Tehran. She learned Arabic and Persian literature from her father and began attending literary meetings at the age of six. Her toys were her books.
Etesami composed her first poem in the classical style when she was eight years old. She received her high school diploma from the American Girls' School of Tehran and also taught at the school for two years.
She later worked as a librarian at the University of Tehran and turned down an invitation to the royal court.
Her first collection of poems was published in 1935 and she received the 3rd Degree Medal of Art and Culture in 1936.
Her poems focus on the themes of social wisdom and the human aspect of life with simple yet telling allegorical elements. There are no signs of romanticism or feminism in her works, although she lived in the period when Iran was beginning to modernize.
Etesami married in 1934 and got divorced two months later. She died of typhoid fever in Tehran in 1940 and was buried in Qom.
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