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4 unusual facts about Abbas Kiarostami


1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake

After Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami found out about the death of a boy who had acted in his film Where Is the Friend's Home?, he was led to make a film about humanity and catastrophe called And Life Goes On.

Firooz Malekzadeh

He has worked on over 50 films in Iran with many respected directors including Bahram Beizai, Abbas Kiarostami and Amir Naderi.

Goodbye Solo

The film exhibits significant thematic and plot similarities to Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 film Taste of Cherry.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets (2005), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.


Bahman Farmanara

He produced some major films, including Abbas Kiarostami's first feature, The Report (1977), Bahram Bayzai's The Crow (1977), Khosrow Haritash's Divine One (1976), Mohammad-Reza Aslani's Wind and Chess (1976) and Valerio Zurlini's Desert of the Tartars (1977 co-production with Italy and France).

Esmael Barari

Barari's works are influenced by documentary filmmaker Morteza Avini and narrative film director Abbas Kiarostami, Who has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.

Nafeh

In this magazine has been published interviews with many writers, poetss, film directors, composers and singers such as Victor Erofeyev, Ahmad Shamlou, Orhan Pamuk, Günter Grass, Mahmoud Dolatabadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Asghar Farhadi, Kamran Shirdel, Bahman Farmanara, Shahrdad Rohani, Alireza Assar and Mohammad-Reza Lotfi.


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