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Marjan (film)
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'Marjan' is a 1956 Persian language film. It was the first Persian feature film in the history of Iranian cinema to be produced and directed by a Persian woman, Shahla Riahi, a well-known actress and singer. The 110-minute 35mm, black-and-white film was produced by Arya Film. The story, written for the screen by Mohammad Asemi, concerns a tribe of gypsies that settle near a village.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 ...
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Hamid Naficy - 2011
Shahla also relates that when her movie, Marjan, did not do well, the producer forced her to cut in Mahvash's songanddance clips to spice it up and to change its depressing ending so as to bring in spectators.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 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 ...
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Category:1956 films
Category:Iranian drama films
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