Love-stricken

Love-stricken
International poster
Directed byAli Hatami
Written byAli Hatami
Produced byAli Hatami
StarringMohammad Ali Keshavarz
Akbar Abdi
Amin Tarokh
Saeed Poorsamimi
Faramarz Sedighi
Fathali Oveisi
Leila Hatami
CinematographyMahmoud Kalari
Edited byRuhollah Emami
Music byHossein Alizadeh
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Love-stricken (Persian: دل‌شدگان) is a 1992 Iranian historical drama film directed by Ali Hatami. The movie is mainly about some Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France. The film uses many notable Iranian actors and actresses. Among them are: Amin Tarokh, Akbar Abdi, Saeed Poursamimi, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Hashempour, Hamid Jebelli, Fathali Oveisi, Shahla Riahi, Leili Rashidi, Leila Hatami, and Anna Borkowska.

Love-stricken is in celebration and praise of Iranian music. At the beginning of the film an intertitle is seen which says: "This film is dedicated to The Great Masters of Iranian Music in the millennium anniversary of Barbad". The film music was composed by famous Iranian musicians such as Hussein Alizadeh as composer and Mohammad Reza Shajarian as singer. Love-stricken was 13th film of Ali Hatami after some both commercial and artistic successes of his previous films like: Mother, Sooteh-Delan, Sattar Khan, Hajji Washington and Kamalolmolk.