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Released
1972 · FILM

The Hen That Laid Golden Eggs

Golden Egg Chicken

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Runtime
87 min
Language
FA
AdventureFantasyMusical

Synopsis

Mesh Rajab Kharkan (Mohammed Taghi Kohnmooi) finds a hen that lays golden eggs. A jeweler (Mahmoud Bahrami) tries to deceive the second wife of Mesh Rajab (Parvin Soleimani) to get the chicken out of his hands. But before that, Saeed (Mohammed Homayun) and Saad (Bahman Mofid), the sons of Mesh Rajab, cut off the head of the chicken and eat its heart and liver. The two go on a journey and lose each other. Saad enters a city and is chosen as the ruler of the city, and Saad finds some gold coins on his way, which a woman (Parveen Malkooti) and her maid (Shahnaz) steal from him. He finds a magic hat and stick. While hunting, Saad meets Mehtab (Marjan), the daughter of another emir; But….

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Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Majid MehrjooShot by Mahmoud KoushanScored by Anooshiravan Roohani

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