The Orphanage of Iran (Persian: یتیم‌خانه ایران), subtitled "A Historical Account of a Genuine Holocaust in Iran",^[1] is a 2016 Iranian action drama film directed by Abolqasem Talebi and set during the Invasion of Iran in World War I and Persian famine of 1917–1919.^[4]

• Alirum Nouraei as Muhammad-Javad Bonakdar
• Farrokh Nemati as the Doctor
• Bahar Mohammadpour as Muhammad-Javad's wife
• Ali Shademan as Hesam
• Jafar Dehghan as Abdossattar, a Jewish merchant collaborating with the British
• Melika Shaban as A'zam

British personnel

• Paul Dewdney as Major General Lionel Dunsterville
• John O'Toole as Sir Lionel Rothschild
• Tommie Grabiec as Colonel Goldsmith
• Cameron Chapman as Major Smith
• Bryan Torfeh as Lieutenant John Straw
• Toby Hughes as Sir Percy Cox

In February 2016, the film was screened in the 34th edition of Fajr International Film Festival as one of the few participated in non-competition section.^[5] It was released in October 2016.^[1][4] The film was displayed in Buenos Aires in February 2017, in an event co-organized by the Ammar Popular Film Festival and the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts.^[6]

Miguel Littín the director from Latin America also attended the international Ammar film festival and expressed his opinion about the film:^[7]

Although it seems difficult to represent the history, the characters and atmosphere are created in a perfect way and I saw the tone, narration and what we are supposed to see in the history. I got pleasure from the film indeed.

According to Mehr News Agency, the film is "considered as anti-British work".^[6] It had a poor opening, grossing only $10,000 in the first week.^[4]