Yadollah Samadi was born in Maragheh in 1952. He entered cinema as assistant director to Nosratollah Karimi’s A Bed for Three in 1972. His recent activities include the manager of Directors’ Society and Managing Director of Cinema House. Father of the Other (2009) My Lady (2002) Saray (1997) Miracle of Laughter (1996) The Man Who Knew Much (1984)Yadollah Samadi has been a Director in some movies:
The Miracle of Laughter is about that After spending years becoming a specialist in laughter-therapy
..., Shakoori has returned home. Now working in a mental hospital in Tehran, he aims to put his training to good use - keeping his mental patients happy and welcoming them back to society through laughter. The audience is guaranteed to join the laughter with this fun comedy that has a heartwarming moral message. In this film Yadollah Samadi collaborates with Golab Adineh, Mehdi Hashemi, Gholam Japoni, Faghiheh Soltani, Jalal Moghadam, Arsh Poor Zarei, Alireza Khamse, Mohammad Abhari, Ghogha Bayat, Parviz Abnar, Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Nemat Haghighi, Hossein Zandbaf, Fereydoun Hassanpour, Mohsen Roshan, Zohreh Safavi, Akbar Doodkar, Farhad Khanmohammadi, Heshmatollah Aramideh, Shaban Rangivand, Tahereh Ahani, Shiva Mabood, Fakhri Soltani, Mehrnoosh Sadeghi, Sirous Meymanat, Akbar Vares, Arash Mirahmadi, Shamsollah Dolatshahi, Reza Amirnia, Reza Manouchehri, Bizhan Mohtasham, Sima Hanifeh, Hatef Mazaherian, Keyhan Maleki, Touraj Nasr, Khosro Khan Mohammadi.
Savalan is about that Every year, a group of brigands plunders the village of Savalan. On the advice of the village headman the people of the village seek help opposing the brigands from a group of mercenaries led by Dorbush Khan. In this film Yadollah Samadi collaborates with Ferdous Kaviani, Majid Mozaffari, Eshagh Khanzadi, Hossein Zandbaf, Farhad Fakhreddini, Mostafa Kamyab, Farhad Khanmohammadi, Zabihollah Zabih-Poor, Hassan Hedayat, Khosro Dastgir, Hassan Gholizadeh, Fatemeh Sadeghi, Abbas Heidari, Seif Ali Seyyed Kosari Nejad, Mohammad Barsouziyan, Yousef Darya Del, Jamal Zolghadr, Mohammad Ali Shahin, Adel Ahmadi, Firouz Heshmat.
The Other One's Dad is about that The film takes place in Tehran 1990s and is the story of a 6-year-old boy, Shahab, who still can not talk and is being teased by everyone. Even in his family, they care for his bigger brother more than him and only his mother is on his side until... In this film Yadollah Samadi collaborates with Akbar Abdi, Hossein Yari, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Shamsi Fazlollahi, Soraya Ghasemi, Hengameh Ghaziani, Farideh Sepah Mansour, Mohammad Abhari, Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Saeed Malekan, Hassan Pouya, Hossein Mahkam, Maryam Saadat, Saeed Karimi, Asghar Nejad-Imani, Ramona Shah, Afshin Nakhaei, Banafsheh Samadi, Sima Mohammadi.
My Lady is about that Years ago, two infants were born in a hospital at the same time. A little boy named Farhad, the first infant’s cousin, takes pictures with the second infant. Twenty years later, Farhad is now a charming young man and is arranged to marry Leyli (the first infant). But Farhad does not really want to marry her, as he is actually in love with Shirin, who is a widow. But since Shirin knows about Leyli’s love towards Farhad, she rejects him. Farhad talks to Leyli about his true feelings and despite her love and affection for him, Leyli decides to leave him alone. But Farhad’s strict dad does not approve of this situation and insists on Farhad and Leyli’s marriage. As a result, he kicks Farhad out and deprives him of inheritance and takes back his store. After a while, Farhad gets injured in an accident and for his lack of sanity, he is confined to a mental hospital. After a little recovery, he fixes the water supply of the mental hospital which had been faulty for a long time. He does not intend to talk to his family under any condition. Leyli is worried about him, so she visits Shirin and demands her to save Farhad’s life. Shirin accepts and the day after, she takes a picture which shows the young Farhad standing next to her cradle and goes to see him in the mental hospital. In this film Yadollah Samadi collaborates with Jamshid Mashayekhi, Katayoon Riahi, Pantea Bahram, Parviz Parastui, Hooshang Ghovanloo, Jamshid shah mohammadi, Asghar Bichareh, Mohammad Abhari, Nasser Shafagh, Mehrdad Fakhimi, Shirin Vahidi, Kambiz Roshanravan, Mahmoud Samakbashi, Ali Abedini, Abbas Mohebbi, Parvin Meykadeh, Babak Borzooyeh, Rouhollah Mehrabi, Mohammad Reza Hagh-goo, Heshmatollah Aramideh, Mohammad Haghighi, Niloofar Mahalati, Ezzatollah Mehravaran, Ghaffar Rezaei, Behnaz Tavakoli, Nadia Moosavi Eshkevari, Kaveh Ahangar, Hamidreza Molana, Khosro Khan Mohammadi, Janet Voskanian.
A Non Profit Police Station is about that The film is about a non-profit police station that considers its duty to ensure the safety of the neighborhood, especially the safety of children. But how to do it has become the main focus of the film. The story is about being held hostage by two ignorant friends who get themselves into big trouble... In this film Yadollah Samadi collaborates with Mehran Rajabi, Amir Jafari, Ferdous Kaviani, Gohar Kheirandish, Kioomars Malek Motiee, Behzad Behzadpoor, Morteza Ahmadi, Ali Soleimani, Saeed Malekan, Bahram Dehghan, Hassan Pouya, Shahram Ghaedi, Mohammad Sheivandi, Mehdi Shojai, Behzad Kazzazi, Mokhtar Saeghi, Reza Shirvani, Azadeh Esmaeilkhani, Atabak Naderi, Masoud Choobin, Ali Shadman, Arash Nozari, Arsalan Ghasemi, Khosro Khan Mohammadi.
The Train Station is about that Because of his special mental and family conditions, an electric engineer accepts the offer of his uncle, who is the head of a large transportation company that has gone bankrupt, to bomb a train station. The insane engineer designs a high-energy bomb, and with the help of a terrorist organization plants it in the station. On his way back from the station, he recognizes his ex-wife among the passengers boarding in the station ... In this film Yadollah Samadi collaborates with Golchehreh Sajadiye, Ebrahim Abadi, Touraj Mansouri, Hossein Zandbaf, Babak Bayat, Parviz Pour Hosseini, Rubik Mansouri, Mostafa Kamyab, Hossein Rezai, Hassan Hedayat, Khosro Dastgir, Reza Mohajer, Banafsheh Samadi, Maliheh Ebrahimi, Asghar Zamani, Saeed Abbasi, Yoosef Samad Zadeh, Mohammad Negahdari, Shahin Yazdani, Firouz Heshmat, Mohammadali Khojasteh, Alireza Sadeghi, Ali Mohammad Borji.
The Man Who Knew too Much is about that A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities and return to his honorable life. In this film Yadollah Samadi collaborates with Malihe Nikjumand, Gholam Japoni, Kioomars Malek Motiee, Jafar Vali, Reza Banafshekhah, Manouchehr Hamedi, Morteza Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Hossein Zandbaf, Hassan Zandbaf, Jamshid Tofighi, Enayatollah Shafiei, Mohsen Roshan, Akbar Doodkar, Mostafa Kamyab, Ahmad Kalantari, Ali Torabi, Hassan Hedayat, Maliheh Nasiri, Mohammad Varshochi, Ahmad Alinejad, Alireza Hodaei, Mohammad Barsouziyan, Shirin Golkar, Jamal Omid, Asghar Zamani, Morteza Rastegar.
Other films are:
The Bus, Saray, Domrol, Apartment No. 13, Two And A Half Men, Shahr Ashoob
