Sohrab Shahid Saless

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-06-28 (54 years old)

Deathday

1998-07-02

Place of Birth

Qazvin, Iran

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Biography

Sohrab Shahid-Saless was born in Tehran in 1944 to a middle-class family and lived in Tehran. Saless was a storyteller as a child, with a passion for visualizing his narrations. In 1963, Shahid Saless left Iran for Vienna, where he attended a film school and an acting school at the same time, but his studies were discontinued there in 1967 due to a sudden diagnosis of tuberculosis. In the midst of treatment, he left for Paris to continue his film studies at the prestigious Independent Conservatory of French Cinema, and shortly thereafter, in 1968, he returned to Iran. Upon his return to Tehran, Shahid Saless began work with the Irania...

Acting

2016

Sohrab, A Journey

as Self (archive footage)

1968

Beyond the Barrier of Sound

as man waiting for the bus (uncredited)

Production

1972

1978

Still Life

as Director

1983

Utopia

as Director

1980

1984

The Willow Tree

as Director

1975

Far from Home

as Director

1977

Diary of a Lover

as Director

1977

1992

Roses for Africa

as Director

1983

Utopia

as Writer

1976

Time of Maturity

as Director

1973

A Simple Event

as Screenplay

1973

A Simple Event

as Director

1975

Far from Home

as Writer

1992

1976

1980

All in Order

as Director

1980

All in Order

as Writer

1983

1987

Changeling

as Director

1983

1972

1972

Black and White

as Director

1971

If...?

as Director

1978

Still Life

as Art Direction

1969

2nd Asian Expo

as Director

1984

1987

1978

Still Life

as Screenplay

1988

Bleeding Heart

as Screenplay

1974

Harmonica

as Editor

1969

1970

1987

1987

A Letter from Kabul

as Original Concept

1987

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