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Farrokh Ghaffari

Farrokh Ghaffari

Farrokh Ghaffari (Persian: فرخ غفاری‎‎) (born 1921 – died 17 December 2006) was an Iranian film director, actor, critic and author. Along with Ebrahim Golestan and Fereydoun Rahnema he was one of the founders of Iran's New Wave film movement. By establishing the first National Iranian Film Society in 1949 at the Iran Bastan Museum and organizing the first Film Week during which English films were exhibited, Ghaffari laid the foundation for alternative and non-commercial films in Iran.

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Movies Starring Farrokh Ghaffari (8)

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016)

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips. ...

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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report (2013)

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. ...

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Days of Farrokh (2006)

The story of personal and artistic life of the progressive Iranian director, Farrokh Ghaffari from himself in an interview in the last years of his life in Paris. ...

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O.K. Mister (1979)

In a remote village in the "land of roses and nightingales" one day surfaces a stranger: William Knox D'Arcy. To enact his plan for exploiting the wealth and the natural resources of this land, he sends after his cronies who descend upon the village in a b ...

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Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan) (1977)

Jean Rouch's camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and talks us through the famous Shah Mosque in Esfehan. While guiding him and answering his questions, Ghaffari makes Rouch discover the beauties of the architectu ...

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The Lantern of Imagination‏ (1976)

"Fanoos Khiyal", with a brief introduction from illustration in Persian literature to mezzanine in Iranian miniatures and folk paintings, introduces the first camcorder in Iran and shows the first available films. After that, with the development of theate ...

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Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre (1973)

Samad burns an ogre's hair which causes an 8000 years old ogre to be released from his prison. The ogre eats a goat and also kidnapped Leila for Samad which causes her father to complain against Samad and sends him to jail but the ogre saves him and takes ...

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Night of the Hunchback (1965)

Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights, the story concerns the death of an actor and the comical incidents that occur as different people come into possession of, and attempt to dispose of, his body. ...

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Movies Made By Farrokh Ghaffari (5)

The Falconet (1975)

During an attack in a caravansary in which all the soldiers die, three people manage to flee. After that they accidentally encounter in different places and help each other out. ...

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Night of the Hunchback (1965)

Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights, the story concerns the death of an actor and the comical incidents that occur as different people come into possession of, and attempt to dispose of, his body. ...

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Life of Oil (1963)

This film is a product of the National Iranian Oil Company, which can be considered one of the first documentaries in the field of Iranian economy. ...

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Rivalry in the City (1960)

Re-edited version of Farokh Ghafari's Jonube shahr without director attribution. ...

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South of the City (1958)

Effat tells Mahmoud her life story in order to convince him not to divorce his wife. ...

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