Dariush Mehrjui

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Dariush Mehrjui

Dariush Mehrjui or Dariusch Mehrdschui (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 neorealism .

Life

After a childhood and youth in which he received artistic support, Mehrjui studied film and philosophy at UCLA in California in 1959 . Here he attended courses with the filmmaker Jean Renoir , who taught him how to work with actors. After graduating, he first brought out a literary magazine with which he wanted to make contemporary Persian literature accessible to the West . During this time he began to write scripts. His second film Die Kuh made his national and international breakthrough, although it was initially banned in Iran due to its realistic portrayal of the poor conditions in the country. His film Dāyereh minā turned out to be his most successful foreign film and Ejāreh Neshīn-hā is considered the best Iranian comedy . Hāmūn (also Hamoun) (1990), which portrays an intellectual whose life threatens to fall apart, is considered the most popular Iranian film, even if it was initially received controversially. It was followed by a number of women’s films that won multiple awards. In Derakht-e Golābī from 1998, Mehrjui provides a study of the Iranian bourgeoisie.

Quote

“I was very much influenced by the Neorealism in Italy and also the classical films of Eisenstein or even Griffith and some of these films which they categorize as art films ... the first thing that I learned from Neorealism was to just look for the reality of your own ... not the others. Try to be just yourself and 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 will be. "

Filmography (director)

  • 1966: Almās 33
  • 1969: The Cow (Gāv)
  • 1971: Postchi
  • 1972: Āghā-ye Hallou
  • 1978: Dāyereh minā
  • 1986: Hayāt-e Poshti Madrese-ye Adl-e Afagh
  • 1983: Voyage au pays De Rimbaud
  • 1986: Ejareh Neshīn-hā (English: The Tenants )
  • 1988: Shirak
  • 1990: Hāmūn
  • 1992: Bānū
  • 1993: Sārā
  • 1995: Parī
  • 1996: Leilā
  • 1998: Derakht-e Golābī
  • 2000: The Mix
  • 2000: Tales of an Island / Dear Cousin Is Lost
  • 2002: Bemāni
  • 2004: Mehmān-e Māmān
  • 2007: Santūrī

Awards (selection)

49 national and international awards including:

literature

  • Dabashi, Hamid. Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema , 451 p. (Mage Publishers, Washington, DC, 2007); Chapter IV, pp. 107-134: Dariush Mehrjui; The Cow . ISBN 0-934211-85-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.iranchamber.com/cinema/dmehrjui/dariush_mehrjui.php
  2. ↑ http://www.firouzanfilms.com/HallOfFame/Inductees/DariushMehrjui.html
  3. ↑ http://www.iranchamber.com/cinema/dmehrjui/dariush_mehrjui.php
  4. ↑ joint award with Wim Wenders for life's work, cf. Message on Tavoos
personal data
SURNAME Mehrjui, Dariush
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehrjoui, Dariush
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian director, filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran