Khosrow Sinai
Khosrow Sinai (Persian خسرو سینایی; born January 19, 1941 in Sari, Iran) is an Iranian film director. His work includes mainly socially critical documentaries. He was the first Iranian director after the Islamic revolution, who won an international award. He is also known as an Iranian teacher, him the coveted Order of the "Knights Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic " was awarded.
Biography
He closed the Alborz High School in Tehran from in 1958 and then continued his further education in Austria continued. There he spent four years studying architecture at the Vienna Technical University and three years as a student of music composition at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
He completed his training in music education as an excellent student of the Academy. He left the Academy with honors in the major course of study film and television director, in addition to degree program, he had studied the subject screenplay. In 1963 he published the collection of poems Mud blister ( about translate with mud bubbles)
After years of study, he returned to Iran in 1967 and worked until 1972 the Department of Arts and Culture, and until 1992 as a teacher at various universities in the areas of screenwriting and documentary creation.
In addition, he also worked in National Iranian Television ( now Seda o Sima called ) as a producer, screenwriter, director and editor. He produced there about 100 short films, documentaries and individual portraits. He is known for his avant -garde documentaries and his unique style in the design of docudramas. He was a judge in various national and international film festivals.
Amazingly, he is indeed recognized despite the large number of his films among intellectuals as one of the best Iranian filmmakers in the Iranian public, however, because of his rather negative attitude towards the press (which also applies in reverse ) little known.
" Arouse Atash " ( The Bride of Fire, German: The Bride of fire) was one of his most successful films and attracted attention, both critics and audiences.
Films (selection )
- The Inner Beast, winner of the Second Fajr Film Festival for Best Director and Photographer
- Going astray
- In the Alleys of Love, presented in the "Kind of View ' section of the International Film Festival of Cannes 1991
- Autumn Alley ( documentary / fiction ) shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
- The Bride of Fire, won prizes at various national and international festivals
- Talking with a Shadow ( docudrama )
Published books and screenplays
- The Man in White,
- The Artists of a Bloodshedding Era,
- The Bride of Fire (writer )
- The Post- communist Cinema (translated from English ).
- My Journey and Adventures in Iran, translation of a book by Ármin Vámbéry (1863 ) from the German.
He wrote and translated many essays about the cinema and other art forms.