Midday Adventures

2017 Iranian film

31 January 2017 (2017-01-31) (Fajr Film Festival)

15 March 2017 (2017-03-15) (Iran)

Running time

108 minutesCountryIranLanguagePersian

Midday Adventures (Persian: ماجرای نیمروز, romanized: majaraye nimroz) is a 2017 Iranian drama film directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian and written by Mahdavian and Ebrahim Amini. The film centers on the MKO assassinations in 1982 and the events after the dismissal of Abolhassan Banisadr. It screened for the first time at the 35th Fajr Film Festival and was released on March 15, 2017 in Iran.

The film won both Best Film and Audience Choice of Best Film, making it one of only five films in the history of cinema of Iran to win the latter. (the other four are The Glass Agency, Low Heights, In Amethyst Color and Crazy Rook).

Plot

After the dismissal of president Bani-Sadr by the Iranian parliament, tensions became high. Terrorist groups began to assassinate Iranian officials. The Iranian government and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attempted to arrest these terrorists. A young IRGC member and a woman of the terrorist groups are known each other. They were classmate in college.^[1]

Cast

Mehrdad Sedighian^[2]
Ahmad Mehranfar
Hadi Hejazifar
Javad Ezzati
Mahdi Zaminpardaz
Mahya Dehghani
Kian Rostami
Linda Kiani
Hossein Mehri
Mehdi Pakdel
Amir Hossein Hashemi as Mohammad Hossein Shadkam

Awards

Crystal Simorgh for Best Film
Crystal Simorgh for Audience Choice of Best Film
Crystal Simorgh for Best Costume and Production Design
Crystal Simorg for Best National Film

Sequel

Midday Adventures: Trace of Blood is the sequel. It screened for the first time on January 30, 2019 at the 37th Fajr Film Festival and was released on September 25, 2019 in Iran.

References

^ The Story of Noon (2017) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-08-21
^ The Story of Noon (2017) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-08-11

External links

Iranian.film
Hansard, Rick. "Midday Adventures of Charley McDoogle|Paperback". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
Hansard, Rick. "Midday Adventures of Charley McDoogle|Paperback". Amazon.com.
Midday Adventures at IMDb

Crystal Simorgh for Best Film

Not awarded (1983)
No winner (1984)
The Scarecrow (1985)
No absolute winner: Frosty Roads / The Grandfather / The Finish Line / The Bus (1986)
The Flight in the Night (1987)
No winner (1988)
Eye of the Hurricane (1989)
The Immigrant (1990)
Apartment No.13 (1991)
The Need (1992)
From Karkheh to Rhein (1993)
No winner (1994)
The Fateful Day (1995)
Father (1996)
Children of Heaven (1997)
The Glass Agency (1998)
Heeva (1999)
Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine (2000)
Baran (2001)
A House Built on Water (2002)
The Insane Flew Away (2003)
Mum's Guest (2004)
So Close, So Far (2005)
In the Name of the Father (2006)
The Third Day (2007)
As Simple as That (2008)
Doubt (2009)
In Amethyst Color (2010)
Crime (2011)
No winner (2012)
Give Back (2013)
Hussein Who Said No / Azar, Shahdokht, Parviz and Others (2014)
Crazy Rook (2015)
Standing in the Dust (2016)
Midday Adventures (2017)
The Lost Strait (2018)
When the Moon Was Full (2019)
Sun Children (2020)
Yadoo (2021)
The Situation of Mehdi (2022)
Metropol Cinema (2023)
Majnoon (2024)

v t e Crystal Simorgh for Audience Choice of Best Film
The Glass Agency (1998) The Color of Paradise (1999) The Bride of Fire / Born Under Libra (2000) Killing Mad Dogs (2001) Low Heights (2002) The Wind Carpet (2003) The Lizard (2004) The Willow Tree (2005) Fireworks Wednesday (2006) Deportees / Santouri (2007) There's Always A Woman in Between (2008) Penniless / About Elly (2009) In Amethyst Color (2010) A Separation (2011) The Snow on the Pines (2012) The Painting Pool / Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013) Track 143 / Special Line (2014) Crazy Rook (2015) Life and A Day (2016) Midday Adventures (2017) Sheeple (2018) Just 6.5 (2019) Butterfly Stroke (2020) Piebald (2021) No award given (2022) No award given (2023) No award given (2024)

Crystal Simorgh for Audience Choice of Best Film