Prominent Iranian filmmaker and author Ebrahim Golestan has died in Britain, his household stated. He was 100.
Golestan was an influential determine in Iran throughout the twentieth century who was extensively celebrated as a pioneer of recent Iranian cinema.
“Father, you’re gone. Goodbye!” his daughter Lily stated in an Instagram put up late Wednesday.
Golestan was born in October 1922 within the southern metropolis of Shiraz.
He arrange Iran’s first movie studio in 1957 the place he shot his first characteristic movie “Brick and Mirror”, an epic indictment of Iranian society.
In 1974, he offered his film “The Ghost Valley’s Treasure Mysteries” based mostly on a novel he wrote criticising fast modernisation underneath the shah’s rule.
Throughout his profession, he printed a number of novels and brief tales which had been usually influenced by the works of US writers together with Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
Golestan moved to England shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution during which Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown.
He appeared in a 2022 documentary “See you Friday, Robinson” with French film director Jean-Luc Godard discussing their views on the filmmaking trade.
His son Kaveh was a outstanding photojournalist who was killed in landmine explosion in northern Iraq in 2003.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
