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Hajji Washington is a iranien film of genre Drama directed by Ali Hatami with Ezatollah Entezami

Hajji Washington (1982)

حاجی واشنگتن

Hajji Washington
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Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginIran
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Historical
Rating70% 3.536353.536353.536353.536353.53635

Hajji Washington (Persian: حاجی واشنگتن‎) is an Iranian comedy/drama film directed by Ali Hatami. The film recounts the story of Iran's first ambassador Haji Washington to the United States.

The movie finished production in 1982, but was not publicly screened in Iran until 1998. The movie was filmed in Italy (filling in for Washington, D.C.) and Ghazali Cinematic Mini-City in Iran.

Synopsis

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori, an influential Qajar politician is sent by Nasereddin Shah to the United States of America during the time of President Andrew Johnson to serve as Iran's ambassador. Once in America Hajji hires a number of employees but soon finds himself missing his family and finding his work unrewarding considering there are very few Iranians in America at the time.

Actors

Ezatollah Entezami

(Hajji Hossein-Gholi Khan Noori)Richard Harrison

(President Andrew Johnson / Grover Cleveland)
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