Sohrab Shahid Saless

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Sohrab Shahid Saless ( Sohrāb Shahǐd-Sāles ; born June 28, 1944 in Qazvin , † June 2, 1998 in Washington, DC ) was an Iranian director , screenwriter and dissident .

Life

In 1962, at the age of 18, he left Tehran for Vienna to study directing and dramaturgy . He later fell ill with tuberculosis and moved to Paris , where he continued to study. After his return to Iran, he made around 20 documentaries for the Iranian Ministry of Culture, including some about the “ White Revolution ” of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the technical progress that came to Iran. In 1971 he received a gold medal at the Tehran Festival. He received several international awards for the feature film A Simple Event . In 1974 Saless left Iran as an opponent of the Shah's regime. Many of his feature films received international recognition. Tabiate Bijan / Stillleben , his last Persian film, was awarded the “Silver Bear” at the 1974 Berlin Film Festival . The films he made in the period that followed earned him the highest level of recognition. In 1981 he was awarded for Grabbe last summer the Adolf Grimme Prize in Gold for best production (along with Thomas Valentin for the script and Wilfried Grimpe as a performer). He used his favorite author Anton Chekhov as a model for his films . His often dark films tell of loneliness, oppression and suffering. There were never pleasing or fashionable patterns. The rhythm refused to allow the comfortable reception. They depict seemingly simple, everyday events that are made exemplary by calm, precise images.

Saless threatened to be deported several times : "The residence permit does not replace the work permit" was stamped on his passport . After the modest success of Utopia, he moved to the ČSSR . There he made his film Hans - A Boy from Germany , which is based on the novel The Blue Hour by Hans Frick . Later he shot roses for Africa . His last film in Germany was made in 1991 in collaboration with ZDF . He wrote the script for it in his quiet hours in Oldenburg , where Saless liked to withdraw. Eventually he emigrated to Chicago, USA , and died in Washington DC in 1998

Filmography

  • 1969: Budjnurd dance
  • 1969: Darwsche's meeting
  • 1969: rising
  • 1969: Second Asian exhibition
  • 1970: Turkmen folklore dance
  • 1970: Dance of the Torbate Djam
  • 1972: Whether?
  • 1972: black and white
  • 1973: A Simple Event (Movie, Iran)
  • 1974: Still life (movie, Iran)
  • 1974: In the Foreign (movie, FRG)
  • 1975: maturity period (film, coproduction with ZDF, FRG)
  • 1976: Diary of a lover (movie, coproduction with WDR , BRD)
  • 1978: Lotte Eisner's long vacation (TV movie WDR, France)
  • 1979: Ordinance (feature film, co-production ZDF, FRG)
  • 1980: Grabbes last summer (TV film RB, BRD)
  • 1981: Chekhov a life (TV film for WDR, SFB , SWF , RAI , GostelRadio / Moscow, USSR and FRG)
  • 1982: Utopia (feature film, co-production ZDF, BRD)
  • 1983: recipient unknown (TV film ZDF)
  • 1984: The Willow Tree (TV film for RB, coproduction with the ČSSR)
  • 1987: Wechselbalg (TV movie, SR)
  • 1990: Roses for Africa (three-hour television film for ZDF)

Awards and festival participation

  • 1972 Ob ?, Best Documentary, National Tehran Film Festival.
  • 1972 Black and White , Golden Plaque, Tehran International Children's Film Festival
  • 1973 A simple event , Golden Ibex for best director at the Tehran International Film Festival
  • 1974 Prize of the Catholic and Protestant film jury as part of the Young Forum at the Berlin International Film Festival
  • 1974 Still Life , Silver Bear , Prize of the International Film Critics, Prize of the Protestant Jury, Berlin International Film Festival
  • 1975 In der Fremde , International Film Critics' Prize, Berlin International Film Festival
  • 1976 Maturity , Bronze Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival
  • 1977 Diary of a Lover Special Film Award from the British Film Institute, London Film Festival
  • 1977 Documenta 6 in Kassel
  • 1980 Fine , Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival
  • Participation in the Cannes Film Festival Directors' Week.
  • 1981 Grabbes last summer , Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for directing (together with Thomas Valentin and Wilfried Grimpe), also as part of the award of the special prize from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1984 Utopia , Academy of Performing Arts Award: Best Film of the Year.
  • 1991 Roses for Africa , Hof International Film Festival

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.buerger-zeitung.de/2010/05/11/das-ferne-land-utopia/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buerger-zeitung.de  
  2. ↑ Sohrab Shahid Saless at filmportal.de
  3. ↑ http://www.berlinale.de/de/archiv/jahresarchive/1974/01_jahresblatt_1974/01_jahresblatt_1974.html
personal data
SURNAME Saless, Sohrab Shahid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian director
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Qazvin
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1998
Place of death Washington, DC