Hajji Washington

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Hajji Washington

Film poster
Directed by Ali Hatami
Produced by Ali Hatami
Written by Ali Hatami
Starring Ezatolah Entezami,
Richard Harrison,
Mario Diano,
Mehri Vadadian,
Esmail Mohammadi
Music by Robik Mansouri
Cinematography Mehrdad Fakhimi
Editing by Musa Afshar
Release date(s) 1998
Running time 98 min.
Country Iran
Language Persian
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Hajji Washington (Persian: حاجی واشنگتن‎ ) is an Iranian comedy/drama film directed by Ali Hatami.

The movie finished production in 1982, but was not publicly screened in Iran until 1998. The movie was filmed in Italy (filling in for Washington DC) and Ghazali Cinematic Mini-City in Iran.

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Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori, and influential Qajar politician is sent by Nasereddin Shah to the United States of America during the time of President Johnson to serve as Iran's ambassador. Once in America Hajji hires a number of employees but soon finds himself missing his family and finding his work unrewarding considering there are very few Iranians in America at the time.

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