Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Born 22/06/1940
Teherán, Iran

Died 04/07/2016 (76 years old)
Paris, Île de France, France

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Abbas Kiarostami, the leading international figure of Iranian film bar none. At the beginning of the 1970s he helped create an important center of Iranian cinema at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran, and his short children's movies indicated a new creative direction. He was one of the men behind the greatest successes of the Iranian New Wave that peaked in the 1970s, but he earned his international reputation… (more)

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