Fariba khatami biography
Fariba Khatami is known for The Story of Hearts (), A Woman Called Sharab () and Adventurers ()..
Pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema
Part of the history of Iranian cinema
Cinema of Iran 1950s–1970s |
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Pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema (Persian: سینمای ایران قبل از انقلاب) contains films and cinematic events made in Iran before Iranian Revolution era.
Fariba Khatami.
Hooshang Kavoosi, an Iranian film critic first used term Filmfarsi (Persian: فیلمفارسی) to point to Iranian popular films before revolution.[1]
History
The 1960s was a significant decade for Iranian cinema, with 25 commercial films produced annually on average throughout the early ‘60s, increasing to 65 by the end of the decade.
The majority of production focused on melodrama and thrillers.
From 1937 till 1947 because of the world economic conditions and then the involvement in World War Two, the motion picture industry in Iran did not produce a single film, but the flow of foreign film to Iran did not stop.
In 1947, Esmail Koushan, with the help of some of his colleagues, established Mitra Films (1997