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Shahla Riahi (Persian: شهلا ریاحی Šahlâ Riyâhi, 10 September 1926[2] – 31 December 2019)[3] was an Iranian actress and film director.
Shahla Riahi | |
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شهلا ریاحی | |
![]() Shahla Riahi in 1970s | |
Born | Ghodratzaman Vafadoost 10 September 1926 |
Died | 31 December 2019 Tehran, Iran | (aged 93)
Resting place | Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery |
Occupation(s) | Actress, director |
Years active | 1951–2000 |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Agha Sheykh Vafadoost (father) Zahra Asgari (mother)[1] |
Born in Tehran, she started stage acting in 1944 and first appeared in cinema in Golden Dreams. In 1956 she became the first Iranian woman to direct a feature, with Marjan.[4] Her career as a film actress includes more than 72 features.[5][6][7]
Riahi died on 31 December 2019 at the age of 93.[8]
References
edit- ^ بیوگرافی کامل شهلا ریاحی به همراه عکس های کمتر دیده شده از آلبوم خانوادگی این بازیگر پیشکسوت
- ^ https://fararu.com/fa/news/423377/%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AD%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%88-%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C [bare URL]
- ^ شهلا ریاحی درگذشت
- ^ "First Iranian female film director and actress Shahla Riahi in cinema". YouTube. 7 December 2012. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021.
- ^ Cinema in Iran, 1900-1979 - Page 144 Mohammad Ali Issari - 1989 That same year, the first Persian feature film in the history of Iranian cinema was produced and directed by a Persian woman. The film was Marjan (proper name), a 35mm, black-and-white film about 110 minutes long, produced and directed by Shahla, a well-known actress and singer. Marjan was the first production of Arya Film, established by Shahla the same year. The story, written for the screen by Mohammad Asemi, is about a tribe of gypsies that settles down near a village.
- ^ A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The Industrializing ... 0822347741 Hamid Naficy - 2011 Shahla also relates that when her movie, Marjan, did not do well, the producer forced her to cut in Mahvash's song‐and‐dance clips to spice it up and to change its depressing ending so as to bring in spec‐tators.
- ^ Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the ... 1137264128 Hamid Dabashi - 2012 - Could spell the word “stone” on the blackboard, And the sparrows flew away from the top of the old tree.5 The earliest record of an Iranian woman filmmaker looking through a camera dates back to the mid-1950s. Historians of Iranian cinema consider Shahla Riyahi's Marjan (1956) as the first occasion when a woman was identified as a filmmaker. Shahla Riyahi was already a popular actress of stage and screen by the time she made Marjan, but masculinist historiography has twice ...
- ^ Sheikhi, Marjohn (1 January 2020). "Veteran Iranian actress Shahla Riahi passes away". Mehr News Agency. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
External links
edit- Shahla Riahi at IMDb