| Tehran,
paytak Iran |
| Tehran,
Capital of Iran |
| Karman
Shirdel |
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the first years on the Sixties, the imperial regime tried to
modernise Iran, and Tehran was meant to be symbol of this intention.
Nevertheless, such prosperity created a vast community of outcasts
filmed by the director.
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Year of Production/ 1966
Running Time/ 18’ |
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Karman Shirdel was born in Tehran in 1939. He graduated from
the Centro Sperimentale della Cinematografia in Rome, with
the film The Mirrors. Following his return to Iran, he shot
documentary films for the Ministry of Arts and Culture just
before he committed himself to social documentary cinema right
till the revolution of 1979. His short documentary films,
Women’s Prison (1965), Women’s Quarter (1966),
Tehran, capital of Iran (1966), and The night it rained (1967),
are nowadays considered as milestones on Iranian documentary
cinema.
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