Born in 1951 in Mashad, Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh started experimental flimmaking in 1971. He made a number of 8mm pictures at the Free Cinema Group before directing his first feature in 1980, "The Liegemen". He has directed a number of popular features, his most recent being "Way of Heaven" (2012) which competed in the 30th Fajr International Film Festival and received the Special Jury Award.Mehdi Sabaghzadeh has been a Director in some movies:
Senator is about that A huge drug gang smuggles big loads
... of heroin from the southern Iranian borders to the country and distribute them all over the country relying on the influence and power of a senator. An innocent young man named Ali Haghighat, who unwarily drives one of the trucks loaded with drugs, is confiscated by sergeant Haghgou in one of the outpost borders. The officials get angry with sergeant Haghgou because he refuses to cooperate with them. While he believes in Ali's innocense, he provides the means for his escape and then decides to reveal the names of the people involved in the gang and gradually finds out about the bitter truth. Ali loses his life in this way. In a drug prevention seminar, the senator is giving a lecture about the harms and disadvantages of drugs. Sergeant Haghgou, who is sitting in the audience, stands up and ends the senator’s life with a bullet. In this film Mehdi Sabaghzadeh collaborates with Bijan Emkanian, Faramarz Gharibian, Enayat Bakhshi, Behzad Rahim Khani, Paridokht Eghbalpour, Fereydoun Jeyrani, Gholamreza Mousavi, Hossein Maleki, Iraj Golafshan, Majid Entezami, Reza Banki, Rubik Mansouri, Hossein Safarian, Hassan Norouzi, Mozaffar Soltani, Shapoor Bakhshayi, Hilda Pirzad, Farhad Khanmohammadi, Majid Alizadeh, Naser Bahram Pour, Saeed Neyvandi, Ali Kangarloo, Alireza Ghavami, Ali Rad, Esmail Payande, Valiollah Bandpey.
Mehdi Sabaghzadeh has been a Producer in some movies:
Italy Italy is about that Nader, a man obsessed with Italy, sings and dances his love to Barfa, from their encounter to their wedding. After a few years, their romance reaches a crisis point which they need to deal with. This delightful Iranian musical comedy is adorned with references to cinema, literature, music and, of course, Italian culture. In this film Mehdi Sabaghzadeh collaborates with Homayoun Ershadi, Hamed Komeili, Danesh Eghba Shavi, Jahangir Mirshekari, Sara Bahrami, Hassan Zahedi, Alireza Alavian, Reza Sakhaei, Dorna Madani, Ali Mollagholipoor, Moein Reza Motalebi, Ali Bahramifar, Kaveh Sabaghzadeh, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Naser Sajjadi Hosseini, Faezeh Alavi, Anamehr Akhlaghi, Ali Jenab, Ziba Mousavi, Meisam Mirzaei.
Little Lady is about that When Sara fails to get her father's compliance to marry Dara, she escapes from home to go Mashhad with Dara and marry him there, but police arrests her in the passengers terminal. At the court, it is agreed that Dara will not come to Sara again, but Sara's stepmom tries to keep their relationship and to gain her father's compliance. Her father gives them a ten-day chance to find a house and bans her daughter from inheriting his wealth. Dara tries to find a house by the help of his friend Nima and his wife who are students, but he fails. They pretend to have a house to keep Sara's father agreed. They spend a night at Nima's house and another night they go to a driver's who has carried the dowry. Because of their unstable and wandered situation, Dara and Sara go in several arguments and even decide to get divorced, but at last they begin their common life under a tent in a park. In this film Mehdi Sabaghzadeh collaborates with Reza Davoudnejad, Chakameh Chamanmah, Esmail Shangale, Paridokht Eghbalpour, Mehrdad Jenabi, Niloufar Dousti, Masoud Valadbeigi, Dariush Babaeian, Nazi Partovzadeh, Mona Davoudnejad, Ali Ghorbanzadeh, Mohammadreza Davoudnejad, Rasool Tavakoli, Hossein Changi, Karim Jahanbakhsh, Hassan Gholizadeh, Mohammad Foghani, Reza Keshavarz, Yoosef Samad Zadeh, Saeed Motalebi, Ahmad Abassali.
Men of Earth is about that The story of three sisters and one brother who multiply their harvest by working hard in the paddy field they inherited. In this film Mehdi Sabaghzadeh collaborates with Mohammadreza Hedayati, Nasrin Moghanloo, Ramtin Khodapanahi, Pirouz Arjmand, Elika Abdolrazaghi, Ahmad Bani Ardalan, Mehrnoush Tabibi, Sahar Arbin, Hassan Gholizadeh, Shiva Kazemi, Sahar Shahamat, Amirhossein Sadeghi, Elaheh Khademi.
50 Million Offer is about that A young couple needs money to cross the border. They decide to kidnap a movie star, and on a rainy day, they carry out their decision. In a house in the north of the country, he is imprisoned and told to call his mother and tell her to prepare fifty million tomans. In this film Mehdi Sabaghzadeh collaborates with Khosrow Shakibai, Mehran Rajabi, Shahab Hosseini, Mahaya Petrossian, Farhad Vilkiji, Farhad Saba, Asghar Abdollahi, Saeed Shahram, Afsaneh Naseri, Nikoo Kheradmand, Babak Shakiba, Mohammad Sheivandi, Farhang Moayyeri, Mohammad Yaghoubi, Mohsen Shayanfar, Mina Ahmadvand.
Taxi Driver is about that Ramin is an airport taxi driver. His wife passed away a while ago. His mom, Aziz, insists that he gets married again. Saeid is Ramin's son . Sara, his teacher,. Sara thinks that Saied's father is a pilot. Ramin decides to propose to Sara because his son and his mom insist on him to do so, but he soon meets a passenger named Jennifer and it changes his life, influences his relationship with Sara, and puts him in danger... In this film Mehdi Sabaghzadeh collaborates with Laleh Eskandari, Soraya Ghasemi, Mehri Vadadian, Mehdi Sabbaghi, Habib Esmaili, Ilia Shahidi Far, Abdollah Eskandari, Touraj Mansouri, Nikoo Kheradmand, Ghorban Mohammadpour, Mohammad Sheivandi, Majid Mirfakhraei, Ladan Soleymani, Mahmoud Bahrami, Mohammadreza Davoudnejad, Akbar Esfahani, Ebrahim Tafreshi, Shirin Shazdeh Ahmadi, Hilda Ranjbaran.
Good Days of Life is about that "Shokooh" is an orphan girl. A wealthy woman asks her to marry her young son. "Shokooh" marries Alireza, the woman's son, without any desire. In fact, Shokooh has a duty to make the last days of Alireza, who has cancer, pleasant and hopeful... In this film Mehdi Sabaghzadeh collaborates with Atefeh Razavi, Esmail Davarfar, Rasoul Sadrameli, Farrokh Fadaee, Kambiz Roshanravan, Nikoo Kheradmand, Maliheh Nazari, Homa Khakpash, Hassan Gholizadeh, Manouchehr Alipour, Fatemeh Sameti, Mahmoud Shokrollahi, Mohammad Reza Zahed Shekarabi, Moniro Ravanipour, Jahansouz Fooladi, Fariborz Tavakoli.
Other films are:
House of Paper, The Quiet Home, Love Isn't Enough, The Last Image, Sun Dwellers, Soil and Fire, The Years of Ash, The Kindness Territory, The Game Is Over, Utterly Cold Blooded, Alma, The Stuntmen, The Immigrants, Search in the Island, Maral, The Case, How Starry Was the Night, Breakfast for Two, Couples' Club, Emad and Tuba's Romanticism, The Lost, The Life
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