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No Men Allowed

2011 film by Rambod Javan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5944012
Source-derived summary

No Men Allowed (Persian: ورود آقایان ممنوع, romanized: Vorud-e-Aghayan Mamnu') is a 2011 Iranian comedy film directed by Rambod Javan and written by Peyman Ghasemkhani. The film screened for the first time at the 29th Fajr Film Festival and received an award and a nomination.

Premise

The principal of a private girls' high school strongly opposes men entering her school. But when the chemistry teacher of the Olympiad students takes six months off due to childbirth, she is forced to bring a substitute teacher to the high school. When her efforts to find a female substitute Olympiad teacher in the middle of the school year fail, she has to accept a male teacher as the only option.

Cast

Vishka Asayesh as Bita Darabi

Reza Attaran as Vahid Jebeli

Mani Haghighi as Faramarz Shapouri

Pegah Ahangarani as Parya Shapouri

Setareh Pesyani as Reyhaneh

Bahareh Rahnama as Yasaman Aghasi

Ali Sadeghi as Driver

Falamak Joneidi asa Shahla Nazerzadeh

Hadis Miramini as Zhina

Mehrnaz Bayat as Mahshid

Parinaz Izadyar as Sahar

Zohreh Hamidi as Mrs. Yazdanpanah

Siavash Cheraghi Pour as Mr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “No Men Allowed” is 2011 film by Rambod Javan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Allowed, film and Rambod, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-06-15. For this dossier, Allowed, film and Rambod is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2011 film by Rambod Javan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5944012. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from No Men Allowed” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.