Abbas Kiarostami

Nationality:
Iranian
Birthdate:
06/22/1940
Birthplace:
Teheran, Iran
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Called the grandfather of the Iranian New Wave of Cinema, director Abbas Kiarostami has drawn comparisons to Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and Jean-Luc Godard, and no less a personage than Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa considers him the rightful heir to Satyajit Ray's mantle as the greatest living practitioner of social realist filmmaking. His pictures depict a country far different from the medieval Iran of the nightly newscast. Underneath the surface orthodoxy of the present regime beats the heart of Persia--a cosmopolitan culture of long-standing artistic and literary Continued
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milestones
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Worked for years doing commercials and graphic design
1969 
Invited to help found the cinema department of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran, Iran
1970 
Directed first short film, "Bread and Alley"
1972 
First feature, "The Traveler"
1977 
Second feature, "The Report"; made outside the Institute's auspices
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