Cyrus Ebrahimzadeh

Tale of mistaken identity about Maxx, an Iranian nightclub singer in Los Angeles, who is invited to Iran by the Ministry of Culture, as a well-known music scholar, to give an important lecture on classical Persian music. (imdb)

Inspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life.

An archaeologist who is after an antique carpet comes to the village. The carpet belongs to Samad but he has sent it to Leila's house. The archaeologist tries to steal it from them but is unsuccessful and the police intervene which lead to the rest of the story (imdb)