Lor Girl

Lor Girl ( Dokhtar-e Lor ) (Persian: دخترِ لُر) was the first sound film ever to be produced in the Persian language. In 1932, it was produced by Ardeshir Irani and Abdolhossein Sepanta under the Imperial Film Company in Bombay. The movie starred Sepanta himself along with Ruhangiz Sami-Nezhad, Hadi Shirazi and Sohrab Puri. The filming took only seven months to complete, and the movies arrived in Iran in October 1933. They were released at only two major theatres, Mayak and Sepah. At this point in time, people could go to the theatres to mainly watch European short comedies and animated features that were of a political nature. The Lor Girl as the first Iranian film with sound was an instantaneous success and shows were ultimately sold...