Sohrab Shahid Saless

Sohrab Shahid-Saless was born in Tehran in 1944 to a middle-class family and lived in Tehran. Saless was a storyteller as a child, with a passion for visualizing his narrations. In 1963, Shahid Saless left Iran for Vienna, where he attended a film school and an acting school at the same time, but his studies were discontinued there in 1967 due to a sudden diagnosis of tuberculosis. In the midst of treatment, he left for Paris to continue his film studies at the prestigious Independent Conservatory of French Cinema, and shortly thereafter, in 1968, he returned to Iran. Upon his return to Tehran, Shahid Saless began work with the Iranian Ministry of Culture as a documentary filmmaker, where he produced multiple short films and documentaries, partly on the topic of traditional dance amongst different Iranian ethnic groups. In the course of his stay in Iran (1968–74), he produced two major feature films, Yek ettefāq-e sāda (A Simple Event, 1973) and Ṭabiʿat-e bijān (Still Life, 1974), both of which won major international awards for their social realist depiction of life in Iran and for their innovative cinematographic and experimental style.Shahid Saless also made several short films for the Ministry of Culture and Arts. He made many commissioned films on the local folkloric dances of various ethnic groups. He also started making short documentaries depicting the unnerving condition of life among the working class. Unsurprisingly, the political subversive message of these films was disliked by the government, and Shahid Saless was forced to leave the country. Settled in Germany in 1974, Shahid Saless started producing documentaries for the German media. The movies he made gained him further international recognition, and he continued making documentary and feature films for major German television programs. He made his last movie, Rosen für Afrika, in 1991 for German television. In 1992, he left Germany for the United States to join his family. He died from a chronic illness related to his liver from which he suffered throughout his life.

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Still Life

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Average Rating

6.8

25 votes

Release Date

Dec 07, 1978

48 years ago
Still Life

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Job Art Direction

Average Rating

6.8

25 votes

Release Date

Dec 07, 1978

48 years ago
Still Life

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Job Screenplay

Average Rating

6.8

25 votes

Release Date

Dec 07, 1978

48 years ago
Utopia

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Average Rating

6.0

14 votes

Release Date

May 20, 1983

43 years ago
Utopia

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Average Rating

6.0

14 votes

Release Date

May 20, 1983

43 years ago
A Simple Event

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Average Rating

6.0

14 votes

Release Date

Sep 01, 1973

53 years ago
A Simple Event

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Job Screenplay

Average Rating

6.0

14 votes

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Sep 01, 1973

53 years ago
Harmonica

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Average Rating

6.7

10 votes

Release Date

Apr 01, 1974

52 years ago
Time of Maturity

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Average Rating

6.9

6 votes

Release Date

Nov 09, 1976

50 years ago
Time of Maturity

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Average Rating

6.9

6 votes

Release Date

Nov 09, 1976

50 years ago
Far from Home

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Average Rating

6.4

5 votes

Release Date

Jan 02, 1975

52 years ago
Roses for Africa

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Average Rating

3.8

5 votes

Release Date

Jun 07, 1992

34 years ago
Far from Home

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Average Rating

6.4

5 votes

Release Date

Jan 02, 1975

52 years ago
Roses for Africa

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Average Rating

3.8

5 votes

Release Date

Jun 07, 1992

34 years ago
Grabbe's Last Summer

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5.0

4 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1980

46 years ago
Diary of a Lover

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Average Rating

6.0

4 votes

Release Date

Sep 13, 1977

49 years ago
Diary of a Lover

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Average Rating

6.0

4 votes

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Sep 13, 1977

49 years ago
All in Order

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Average Rating

6.0

3 votes

Release Date

Mar 19, 1980

46 years ago
All in Order

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Average Rating

6.0

3 votes

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Mar 19, 1980

46 years ago
Anton P. Chekhov: A Life

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Average Rating

5.0

3 votes

Release Date

Dec 26, 1981

44 years ago
Anton P. Chekhov: A Life

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Average Rating

5.0

3 votes

Release Date

Dec 26, 1981

44 years ago
Black and White

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Average Rating

7.5

2 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1972

55 years ago
Black and White

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Average Rating

7.5

2 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1972

55 years ago
Black and White

Department Writing

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Average Rating

7.5

2 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1972

55 years ago
Changeling

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Average Rating

6.0

1 votes

Release Date

Aug 09, 1987

39 years ago
Bleeding Heart

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Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Mar 27, 1988

38 years ago
The Willow Tree

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1984

42 years ago
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Nov 30, 1979

47 years ago
Hans: A Young Man in Germany

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Apr 07, 1985

41 years ago
Hans: A Young Man in Germany

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0.0

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Release Date

Apr 07, 1985

41 years ago
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Nov 30, 1979

47 years ago
Addressee Unknown

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Feb 19, 1983

43 years ago
Addressee Unknown

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Feb 19, 1983

43 years ago
If...?

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0.0

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Release Date

Jan 01, 1971

56 years ago
2nd Asian Expo

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0.0

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Release Date

Oct 30, 1969

57 years ago
The Willow Tree

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0.0

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Release Date

Jan 01, 1984

42 years ago
A Letter from Kabul

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0.0

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Release Date

Feb 04, 1987

39 years ago
Dance of Bojnourd

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0.0

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Release Date

Jan 01, 1969

58 years ago
Dances of Torbat-e Jam

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0.0

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Release Date

Jan 01, 1970

57 years ago
A Letter from Kabul

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0.0

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Release Date

Feb 04, 1987

39 years ago
A Letter from Kabul

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Feb 04, 1987

39 years ago
A Letter from Kabul

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0.0

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Feb 04, 1987

39 years ago

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