Five films by the prominent filmmaker and screenwriter Sohrab Shahid-Saless (1944-1998) are to be screened in selected cinemas in Tehran, Shiraz, Mashhad, Kerman, Isfahan, Babol and Tabriz for five days from July 17.
The films include A Simple Event (1973), Grabbes, Last Summer (1980), The Willow Tree (1984), Hans - A Boy in Germany (1985), and Changeling (1987), ISNA reported on its Persian website.
A documentary on the life of the director titled “Sohrab, A Journey” directed by Omid Abdollahi was released recently in cinemas across the country. It narrates the professional and personal life of Shaid-Saless during the production of two important movies in Iran’s cinema history: “Still Life” and “A Simple Event”.
Shahid-Saless is considered as one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century. In 1963, he left Iran for Vienna, where he attended a film school and an acting school at the same time.
Then he left for Paris to continue his film studies at the prestigious Independent Conservatory of French Cinema, and shortly after, in 1968, he returned to Iran.
In Tehran, Shahid-Saless started work with the Iranian Ministry of Culture as a documentary filmmaker, where he produced multiple short films and documentaries, Iranicaonline.org wrote.
In the course of his stay in Iran (1968–74), he produced two major feature films, “A Simple Event” and “Still Life” (1974). Both won major international awards for their realistic depiction of social life in Iran and for their innovative cinematographic and experimental style.
In 1976 he went to Germany where his TV productions always had a distinguished artistic quality. In 1992, he left Germany for the US to join his family. There, he died from a chronic illness related to a liver condition from which he suffered for a long period.
