Esmaeel Khalaj (born 1936, Persian: اسماعیل خلج‎) is an
Iranian playwright and film and television writer, director and actor.
He was born in Astara, but went to Tehran and studied acting under the
Iranian acting teacher and director, Abdolhossein Nooshin. He started
to write plays in the 1970s. In his plays, he has a very naturalistic
worldview and bitter language. In fact, he is under the influence of
European nineteenth-century realism and naturalism. Most places in his
plays are coffeehouses and dirty places from downtown. His characters
are prostitutes, pimps, thieves and illiterate people. These
characters use a simple and sometimes rude language, but at the same
time they think about very difficult problems like death and life. Esmaeel Khalaj Top Movies & Young Movies