Pretty Foe (1962)

- Directed by
- Esmail Koushan
- Country
- Iran
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young woman named Zari flees her hometown to avoid being forced into marriage with an older man. After struggling to survive in the city, she ends up working at a cabaret.
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What happens
Pretty Foe (Persian: اهریمن زیبا, romanized: Ahriman-e Ziba, lit. 'demonic and beautiful') is a 1963 Iranian Persian-genre romance drama film directed by Esmail Koushan. It starred Azar Hekmat Shoar, Ali Azad, Soheila (actress), Rahim Roshanian, Moezzdivan Fekri, Maliheh Nasiri, Akbar Jannati Shirazi, and Hossein Mohseni. After her father decides to marry her to an old man for the fourth time, Zari runs away from her hometown to the city, and after a few days of living in a house, she is dragged to the cabaret. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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