Mansour Ghadarkhah
Mansour Ghadarkhah (* 1956 in Iran ; † December 2, 2015 in Nevada , United States ) was a German - Iranian director and screenwriter .
Ghadarkhah made Super 8 films as a schoolboy . After training as a camera operator, he worked as a cameraman, assistant director and actor for the television station in his hometown Isfahan . For fourteen months he was involved in a series production, wrote and staged his own plays and made several short films. He was awarded twice as best actor in his state.
In 1979 he went into exile in Germany, studied photo-film design and married Ruth Maria Schröer in 1982. During his student days he made the documentaries Sehnsucht nach Heimat und Anklage . Together with his wife and friend Karl-Ludwig Groll, he founded Roya Film Produkationsgesellschaft mbH in 1989 .
After four years of funding and one year of production, he finished his first feature film, Eye for Eye , in 1992 . The film is running successfully at home and abroad and has received two awards. Mansour Ghadarkhah passed away on December 2, 2015. He was buried in El Toro Cemetery, Orange County.
Filmography
- 1992: an eye for an eye
- 1994: Choda Hafes - Goodbye dear grandma (children's film)
- 1996: Trace of Terror (Documentation)
- 1998: From Cali to Calcutta - Vacation in the slums (report)
Web links
- Mansour Ghadarkhah in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghadarkhah, Mansour |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iran |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 2015 |
| Place of death | Nevada , United States |