Dariush Mehrjui

Dariush Mehrjui ( born December 8, 1939 in Tehran, persian داریوش مهرجویی ) is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker. He is one of the pioneers of the New Iranian film, in which he introduced the neo-realism.

Life

After a childhood and youth, in which he was promoted artistic, Mehrjui 1959 studied film and philosophy at UCLA in California. Here he attended, among others, courses in which filmmaker Jean Renoir, who introduced him to the work with actors. After graduating, he first brought out a literary journal with which he wanted to make accessible contemporary Persian literature the West. During this time he began to write screenplays. With his second film, The cow he managed the national and international recognition, although he was due to its realistic representation of the indigent circumstances in the country initially banned in Iran. His film Dayereh MINA turned out to be his most successful foreign film and Ejāreh Neshin - hā is considered the best Iranian comedy. Hamun (also Hamoun ) ( 1990), which portrays an intellectual whose life threatens to fall apart, is considered as the most popular Iranian film, even when he was first aroused controversy. He was followed by a number of women's films which have won several awards. In Derakht -e Golabi from 1998 Mehrjui provides a study of the Iranian bourgeoisie.

Quote

"I was very much Influenced by the Neorealism in Italy and therefore the classical films of Eisenstein or even Griffith and some of thesis films Which They categorize as art films ... the first thing I did learned from Neorealism what to look for just the reality of your own ... not the others. Try to be yourself and just try to seek out the reality inherent in your culture, in your society, and the closer you go, the deeper you go into that, the more universal it wants to be. "

Filmography (director)

Awards (selection)

49 national and international awards including:

  • Golden Shell, San Sebastián International Film Festival 1993.
  • Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival 1998.
  • Crystal Simorgh (Phoenix ), International Fajr Film Festival 2004
  • Sergei Parajanov - - Gedenktaler Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Festival "Golden Apricot " Yerevan 2008

Other spellings

  • Dariush Mehrjoui, Dariush Mehrjouei
Italian neorealism The Cow (film) Women's cinema Integrated Authority File
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