Asghar Farhadi

Asghar Farhadi

Asghar Farhadi, Iranian scriptwriter and director

Asghar Farhadi, Iranian scriptwriter and directorAsghar Farhadi, writer and director, is currently among the most famous Iranian filmmakers in the world. Born in Isfahan in the 1972, he graduated in directing from the Tarbiyat Modarres University in Tehran. His first feature is titled Dance in the dust (Raqs dar ghobar, 2003). followed The beautiful city (Shahr-e Ziba, 2004), Chaharshanbeh Suri (2006) About Elly (Darbareh-ye Elly, 2009), A separation (Jodayi-ye Nader az Simin, 2011), another proof of great narrative and ideological depth, The past (Le Passé, 2013), The client (Forushandeh, 2016), Everybody knows (Everybody knows, 2018). If it is with About Elly  that earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Festival that the promising filmmaker begins to make himself known to the Western public, is with A separation that Farhadi officially enters the history of Iranian and world cinema: in 2012, in fact, Farhadi retires - his country's first director to reach such a milestone - the Oscar for best foreign film. Five years later, in the 2017, Farhadi won a second figurine for the film The client. Internationally consecrated, loosely based on Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman". Farhadi then directed two feature films abroad: the first in France (The past), the second in Spain (Everybody knows). Particularly adept at directing actors, with The client Farhadi marks a further record in the history of Iranian cinema: actor Shahab Hosseyni, al Cannes Festival 2016, is awarded the prestigious Prix ​​d'interprétation masculine, an award never before assigned to an Iranian actor.

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