Bitter Coffee (2010)
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Revealing the lost truth of history
The series begins with history teacher Nima Zande-Karimi (Siamak Ansari) realizing that his extensive research on Persian and world history is of little use to financing his day-to-day life. He is about to leave Tehran for good to go back to his hometown by the name of Darab, when he comes across young university student Roya Atabaki (Sahar Jafari-Jozani) who is researching for her final year dissertation, which is regarding the period 1198–1203, that is said to be a period of turmoil for Iran's ruling elite. Such turmoil that, very few books are available on that period for Roya's research. It is then that Nima receives an anonymous telephone call, which leads him to Niavaran Palace (currently a museum), where he is told to have a coffee and wait. The coffee (which is bitter) is ready and he duly drinks it, his sight becomes hazy, and when he manages to refocus he is in the year 1201 (1822 AD), and the story develops therein.
- Director
- Mehran Modiri
- Writers
- Amir Mahdi Jule, Khashayar Alvand
Siamak Ansari
Mostashar-ol-Molk / Nima Zand-Karimi
Mohammadreza Hedayati
King Jahangir Doloo
Mehran Modiri
Bluetooth the Great
Elika Abdolrazzaghi
Queen Fakhr-o-Taj
Sahar Zakaria
Lobat-ol-Molook Doloo
Reza Feyznorouzi
Premier Etemad-ol-Molk Deylami
Maryam Bbakhshi
Akhtar-ol-Molook
Sahar Jafari Jozani
Naz-Khatoon Deylami / Roya Atabaki
Aref Lorestani
Sheriff Balad-ol-Molk
Borzoo Arjmand
General Borzoo Sepahsalar
Gholamreza Nikkhah
Damoosol Molk
Hadi Kazemi
Baba Shah / Colonel Tupolev
