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Mehdi Bajestani (Persian: مهدی بجستانی; born January 12, 1975) is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his performance as Saeed Hanaee in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which he earned a Robert Award nomination, a Bodil Award nomination and a German Film Award nomination.
Actor: Holy Spider. Mehdi Bajestani was born on 12 January 1975 in Bajestan, Iran. He is an actor, known for Holy Spider (2022), Tatami (2023) and Sweet Taste of Imagination (2014).
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Mehdi Bajestani ( Persian: مهدی بجستانی; born January 12, 1975) is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his performance as Saeed Hanaee in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which he earned a Robert Award nomination, a Bodil Award nomination and a German Film Award nomination.
Jan 4, 2023 · Played by Mehdi Bajestani, Saeed is a local construction worker by day. By night, he roams the streets, targeting sex workers to cleanse the streets of sin. As she follows the case, Rahimi...
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- Diba Mohtasham
Oct 27, 2022 · Directed by the Denmark-based Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, the movie tells the story of Saeed Hanaei (Mehdi Bajestani), a construction worker and war veteran in Mashhad, Iran, who strangled 16...
- Devika Girish
- Ali Abbasi
Jan 19, 2023 · Mehdi Bajestani as the killer in Holy Spider. After the credits break, with a surge of churningly ominous music, our viewpoint switches to Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), a female journalist from...
Oct 22, 2022 · The killer, played by Mehdi Bajestani, is based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei. Utopia. Abbasi, the film’s director, said he wanted to challenge the image of “the Islamic Republic and its...
