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Khosrow Sinai ( Persian خسرو سینایی; * January 19, 1941 in Sari , Iran ; † August 1, 2020 in Tehran ) was an Iranian film director and university lecturer. His work consists mainly of socially critical documentaries. He was the first Iranian director to win an international award after the Islamic revolution . He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic .
Life
He graduated from Alborz Highschool in Tehran in 1958 and then continued his education in Austria. There he spent four years studying architecture at the Vienna Technical University and three years as a student of musical composition at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts .
He completed his training in music education as an Academy Awarded Student. He left the academy with honors in the main course in film and television directing, and in the secondary course he also studied screenwriting. In 1963 he published the collection of poems Mud Blisters (roughly translated with mud bubbles ).
After the academic years he returned to Iran in 1967 and worked in the Ministry of Art and Culture until 1972 and as a teacher at various universities in the fields of screenplay and documentary production until 1992.
He also worked on Iranian National Television (now called Seda o Sima ) as a producer , screenwriter , director and editor . There he produced around 100 short films, documentaries and individual portraits. He is known for his avant-garde documentaries and his unique style in creating documentaries . He was a juror at various national and international film festivals.
Amazingly, despite the large number of his films, he was recognized as one of the best Iranian filmmakers among intellectuals, but little known in the Iranian public because of his rather negative attitude towards the press (and vice versa).
Arouse Atash ( The Bride of Fire , German: Die Braut des Feuers ) was one of his most successful films and attracted attention from both critics and audiences.
Sinai died on August 1, 2020 as a result of COVID-19 .
Films (selection)
- Viva ...! , Laureate in Karlovy Vari 1980
- The Inner Beast , winner of the Second Fajr Film Festival for best director and photographer
- The Lost Elegy (Documentary)
- Going astray
- In the Alleys of Love , screened in the “Kind of View” section of the 1991 Cannes International Film Festival
- Autumn Alley (Documentary / Fiction), shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
- The Bride of Fire , prizewinner at various national and international festivals
- Talking with a Shadow (docudrama)
Published books and scripts
- The Man in White ,
- The Artists of a Bloodshedding Era ,
- The Bride of Fire (screenplay),
- The Post-communist Cinema (translated from English).
- My Journey and Adventures in Iran , translation of a book by Ármin Vámbéry (1863) from German.
He also wrote and translated many essays on cinema and other arts.
See also
Web links
- Khosrow Sinai in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Khosrow Sinai honored in Poland. BBC
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sinaii Receives Polish Order of Merit. tehrantimes.com, September 24, 2008, accessed August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ “Bride of Fire” director Khosro Sinai dies from coronavirus. tehrantimes.com, August 1, 2020, accessed August 1, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sinai, Khosrow |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | خسرو سینایی |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sari , Iran |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 2020 |
| Place of death | Tehran |