Ding Ding (23: 28 on September 65438, 2004)
When it comes to movies, few people think of Iran.
For a long time, this beautiful land has been dominated by European and American powers. Even with Asia as the center, China, Japanese, Indian and other countries with close contact with the West have attracted the attention of the world. In contrast, Iran, a small, closed and turbulent country, can be completely ignored by film culture. This sad situation was finally changed by an extraordinary film director, that is, Abbas, who is often talked about by fans nowadays.
Abbas kiarostami (1940) was born in Teheran, the capital of Iran, on June 22nd, and showed great interest in art since he was a child. Graduated from the Municipal Academy of Fine Arts. He found himself unfit to take the road of art. In order to make a living, he temporarily designed traffic posters for the traffic police bureau and drew illustrations for children's books. Later, I started shooting advertisements and short films. His attempts at various jobs have accumulated rich social life experience for him in the future.
1969 is an indelible year in Iranian film history-the birth of a new wave in Iran. Abbas was hired by the Youth Development Institute to set up a film department, and he has been filming here for the next 23 years (to 1992). The film department has become a hotbed for making new Iranian films. For Abbas himself, this is also an important turning point in his life. From 1969, as a director, playwright, producer and editor, he rose as a new star in the wave of Iranian film industry.
1970, Abbas completed his first lyric short film "Bread and Alleys", from which we can gain insight into the artistic style of his later masterpieces: documentary framework, impromptu performance, real life rhythm and realistic theme. And all this was slowly and naturally integrated by him. Accumulated several years of experience in making short films, 1974, Abbas released his first feature film "The Traveler" (only 74 minutes, of course), describing in detail a rebellious young rural problem, and he insisted on going to the capital Tehran to watch a football match. In 1980s, he successively filmed some documentaries reflecting the problems faced by Iranian school-age children, such as Freshman (1985) and Homework (1989).