Reza Allamehzadeh

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Reza Allamehzadeh ( Persian رضا علامه‌زاده, listen ? / i ; * October 27, 1943 in Sari , Mazandaran Province ) is an Iranian - Dutch filmmaker , film critic , screenwriter and writer . He is especially known for his films about refugees and migrants, such as The Guests of Hotel Astoria (1988) and the documentation Holy Crime (1994), in which it opposition to the murder figures in European countries by the Islamist regime in Iran went. Audio file / audio sample

Life

Khosrow Golsorkhi

Allamehzadeh was born in Sari in the Iranian province of Mazandaran in 1943. He studied from 1966 to 1969 at the Tehran University of Film and Television. Until 1973 he shot a series of children's short films and documentaries on behalf of the "Association for the Promotion of the Intellectual Abilities of Children and Young People" Kanun-e Parvaresh, which was founded on the initiative of Farah Pahlavi .

As a member of the Marxist militant Iranian People's Mujahedin opposition movement around Khosrow Golsorkhi and Karamat Daneschian , he was imprisoned in 1974 with Khosrow Golsorkhi. Khosrow Golsorkhi was charged with kidnapping the son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and sentenced to death on the evidence available. Excerpts of his trial were broadcast on Iranian television. Allamehzadeh, who was also charged in this trial, was sentenced to a long prison term, but only served five years of that term. From this point on, he participated as a member of the Marxist guerrilla organization Fedajan-e Chalq in the underground struggle against the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .

He has lived in exile in the Netherlands since 1983 , after he had campaigned for the fate of Khosrow Golsorkhi and Karamat Daneschian through filming and interviews and the underground organization had split up.

When he wanted to travel to Iran in 1998/99 for research on the rediscovered modern poet Ahmad Shamlu (* 1925 in Tehran) and wanted to apply for a visa based on his Dutch passport , the Iranian officials pointed out that he could be found despite his missing Iranian passport and continue to regard his escape as an Iranian citizen. This means that he can also enter the country without a visa. Since Allamehzadeh feared the loss of the protection of his Dutch citizenship in this case , he decided not to enter the country. In addition, Schamlu's health deteriorated rapidly due to his diabetes and cancer, which further doomed the film project The Testament of the Phoenix to failure.

While working as a filmmaker, Allamehzadeh regularly writes and publishes children's books , novels and short stories . In the past he has repeatedly given lectures and courses on the shooting of film and television productions at various universities around the world, for example at Hollins University in the US state of Virginia , Leeds Metropolitan University , United Kingdom , and at the International R / TV Training Center in the Netherlands .

In addition, Allamehzadeh is committed to Kurdish film and has shot various documentaries for Dutch television. He is fluent in Persian and English. He also has an advanced knowledge of Dutch and Spanish.

Films (selection)

  • 1972: Ghadir (b / w film)
  • 1972: Fadayi (b / w film)
  • 1973: Shahed (short film)
  • 1973: The Trap (short film, Grand Prix at the 12th International film festival for Children and Youth in Gijón, Spain)
  • 1986: A Few Simple Sentences ( Die Paar zinnetjes ), Awards: Best Short Film, Stockholm 1986, International Immigrant Film Festival; Best Children's Film, Tomar 1987 International Festival of Cinema for Children and Youth; Best Children's Film, Jury Prize, International Center of Films for Children and Youth (CIFEJ), International Moscow Film Festival, 1987.
  • 1989: The Guests of Hotel Astoria (selected as a feature film for the Venice, Moscow, Montreal and Chicago film festivals)
  • 1994: Holy Crime
  • 1997: Manuscripts don't burn (documentation about Russian authors)
  • 2011: Iranian Taboo (Documentation on the Baha'i community in Iran and outside this area)

Books

  • The Thick Trunk of A Maple tree. 1976. Short story collection.
  • The Art of Primitive Man. 1977. Art historical considerations for children.
  • The Art of Ancient Civilizations. 1980
  • Illusion of Islamic Cinema in Iran. 1990. Research on Islamic Cinema after the Revolution
  • The Frog . 1993. Novel.
  • The first hoopoe who had a crest. 1994. Children's book.
  • My great secret. 1995. Short story collection.
  • Far from the fire. 1995. Collection of essays on film.
  • Bitter buzzer. 1996. Novel.
  • Confidential Travelogue. 1997. Report on the literary archive of the KGB .
  • Lalla and My Stepfather. Nashr-e Ketab Publishers, Los Angeles 1998.
  • The Private Album. 1999. Novel.
  • Mossadegh. 2005. drama.

literature

  • Hamid Naficy (Ed.): Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place. Routledge, London / New York 1999, ISBN 0-415-91946-0 .
  • Hamid Reza Sadr: Iranian Cinema: A Political History. IB Tauris, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-84511-147-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the influence on the Iranian film scene: Mehdi Semati: Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State. Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2008, p. 182.
  2. ↑ Hamid Naficy: An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Princeton University Press, Princeton et al. a. 2001, p. 249.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ^ Mette Hjort: Film And Risk. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2012, p. 159.
  5. ↑ See for the formal language: Hamid Naficy: The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1993, p. 241.
  6. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014255/
  7. ^ Ari Siletz: Eye Opener: Reza Allamehzadeh's documentary about Bahai persecution. In: www.iranpresswatch.org. March 17, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Allamehzadeh, Reza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES رضا علامه زاده (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-Dutch filmmaker, film critic, screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sari , Mazandaran Province