Zazians’s brilliant theater performances prompted Mohammad Ali Jafari and Ataollah Zahed, another directors, to cast her in their films. She first starred in the film The Man Who Suffers directed by Jafari and then in film Awaiting directed by Ataollah Zahed. Cinema in the late 1950s was dominated by Italian films. But the release of Messenger of Paradise, directed by Samuel Khachikian and written by Hossein Madani, released cinema from Italian dominance.
