Age: 52
female
Merila Zarei (مریلا زارعی) was born on 14 April 1974. She is an Iranian actress famous for A Separation, About Elly, Hush! Girls Don't Scream, Two Women, Track 143, the Fifth Reaction, Keifar, The Unwanted Woman and The Outcast. She graduated from Azad University of Tehran. During her studies Merila Zarei became interested in acting through Ezatollah Entezami's acting courses. Her first movie was in Ali Asghar Shadravan's Patak. She received the Crystal Simorgh for the best actress in a supporting role for The Friday's Soldiers from the 22nd Fajr International Film Festival. More recently, Merila Zarei appeared in Ebrahim Hatamiki a's 2016 feature film 'Bodyguard' and Reza Mirkarimi's multi award winning movie 'Daughter'.
Night of Terror follows one sleepless night in the final years before the Iranian Revolution, where the lives of two men—born from the same wounded past yet shaped into opposite extremes—intertwine in a tense psychological spiral. Hedayat, a university professor and once-idealistic intellectual, now finds himself paralyzed by fear, self-doubt, and the weight of a collapsing society. His anger turns inward, feeding a quiet, corrosive despair. Meanwhile, Hadi, a brutal security agent molded by the same history, has learned to weaponize his rage outward, inflicting pain on others with ruthless confidence. As political unrest intensifies outside, both men are forced to confront the origins of their shared darkness. Through fragmented memories, feverish thoughts, and the growing tremor of revolution in the streets, the story reveals that the line between the “intellectual” and the “thug” is thinner than it appears—both products of the same broken system, both carrying the same seed of violence. Over the course of a single night, their inner storms collide with the external chaos of a nation on the brink, where buried rage erupts, identities crumble, and no one escapes the fire of what is coming.
