Mansur Madavi

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Mansur Madavi (* 1942 in Mianeh, East Azerbaijan ) is an Austrian film director , cameraman, author and producer of Iranian origin.

Live and act

In a small town near Ararat born, he moved to his childhood with his family to Vienna , where he attended a secondary school graduated . He began a four-semester medical degree and then moved to the graphics department of the Academy of Fine Arts . Finally, he studied directing and camera at the film academy , both of which he graduated with honors in 1970. His first short films - Sparringpartner, Die Schere, Das Peephole and Anthropos - were made while studying.

In addition to short films, documentary and cultural films for television are made in the first few years after graduating from the film academy . He made his feature film debut in 1974 with The happy minutes of Georg Hauser . His feature films are mostly dramas that deal with tragic individual fates and social and societal aspects of the present. The 1976 film Emergency Exit deals with the possibilities of freedom in Western society . In Die blinde Eule (1978), on the other hand, he tells of a girl who escapes from a reformatory. It is one of the first Austrian films to deal with the lives of people locked away in any way - a topic that was dealt with frequently in Austrian filmmaking in the following decade. In 1982 Madavi directed the socially critical film A Little Die , with Alfred Solm as an old man fighting against being evicted from his apartment.

Madavi's films have been shown at the international film festivals of Karlsbad , Locarno , Moscow , Varna, Oberhausen , Tehran, Tunis, Carthage, San Sebastian , San Remo and London , among others .

His poetic masterpiece With Closed Eyes was shown at the San Francisco Film Festival.

In 2010 the Filmarchiv Austria dedicated a tribute to him as part of the Diagonale .

As the head of Mahdavi Films , which he founded , he also works as a film producer.

Quotes

"I give things the time they need"

- Mansur Madavi : Interview in Austrian Filmnews International , 2000

Filmography

Films directed by Mansur Madavi, unless otherwise stated:

  • 1967: Sparring partner (short film)
  • 1968: The Scissors (short film)
  • 1969: The Peephole (short film)
  • 1970: Anthropos (short film)
  • 1970: Why don't you sing
  • 1971: Bora Bya
  • 1974: The Manifesto (as cameraman; director: Antonis Lepeniotis )
  • 1974: Georg Hauser's happy minutes
  • 1976: Emergency exit with Thomas Stolzeti
  • 1979: The blind owl
  • 1980: to die a little
  • 1984: Right behind the door
  • 1990: Long shadows
  • 1999: With my eyes closed

Awards

  • Fantasporto , Portugal, 1985:
    • Critics' Award - Special Mention for Behind the Door
    • International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award for Behind the Door
    • Nomination for the International Fantasy Film Award for Behind the Door
  • 1983: Austrian Award for Filmmaking for a Little Die

literature

  • Walter Fritz : In the cinema I experience the world - 100 years of cinema and film in Austria. Appendix filmographies. Brandstätter, Vienna 1996.
  • Olaf Möller in filmarchiv, messages from Filmarchiv Austria . Edition 03/07, p. 13.
  • Christian Dewald, Olaf Möller & Dieter Schrage : Pocket Cinema # 3: Mansur Madavi. ISBN 978-3-902781-02-4

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Announcement at the San Francisco Film Festival in English
  2. ↑ Announcement on Diagonale 2010 , accessed on March 14, 2011.
  3. ↑ Cargo auf der Diagonale detailed review by Lukas Förster 2010, accessed on March 14, 2011
  4. ↑ The Austrian Art Prize . Retrieved October 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Madavi, Mansur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahdawi, Mansur; Mahdavi, Mansur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director and producer of Iranian origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Mianeh , Azerbaijan