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Saturday, June 26th, 2010 by admin
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Mohammad Ali Fardin (1930 – 2000)

A former wrestling champion, Fardin was the biggest star in Iran’s cinema during the 1960s and early 1970s. He acted and sometimes directed films in the luti genre, playing the proletarian rogue with the heart of gold, who rejects Westernization and materialism yet does not challenge the status quo (Champion of Champions [Siamak Yasami, 1965]; ...

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Saturday, June 26th, 2010 by admin
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Niki Karimi

Karimi is an award-winning Iranian ac­tress, film director, and translator. Dariush Mehrjui’s Sara, based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, gave Karimi her first nationally and internationally acclaimed role, an emotionally charged rendering of the title character, Sara, a woman on the verge of discovering the truth about her exploitative and loveless marriage. She is ...

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Friday, June 25th, 2010 by admin
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Tahmineh Milani (1960 – )

Born in Tabriz, Milani is the ac­claimed director of such well-known woman-centered films as Two Women (1999), The Hidden Half (2001), The Fifth Reaction (2003), and The Unwanted Woman (2005). These films have been controversial in Iran, particularly The Hidden Half, which led to her imprisonment in 2001 for counterrevolutionary statements and alleged maligning and ...

. Producers & Directors

Friday, June 25th, 2010 by admin
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Dariush Mehrjui (1939 – )

Born in Tehran, Mehrjui developed an early interest in music, learning the piano and santur. He came to study cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but abandoned it for a philosophy degree, reputedly disappointed by the UCLA film school’s Hollywood emphasis. After graduating in 1964, he started a literary magazine, which he ...

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Saturday, May 15th, 2010 by admin
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Abbas Kiarostami

At the end of the 1990s, an international poll of influential critics and curators named Abbas Kiarostami that decade’s most important filmmaker—no mean feat for a self-taught cineaste whose earliest movies were shorts made for Iran’s Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. But those films display breathtaking originality in their fresh, ...

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Born: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, May 29, 1957 (Tehran, Iran). Directing style: Controversial visual poet of Iranian New Wave; autobiographical and childhood themes; chronicles the history of Iran state and its people; often works with family members. Profile: With its repressive political environment, Iran may seem an unlikely spot for a film renaissance, but that is just ...

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