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بهرام بیضایی
Bahram Beizai

Born December 26, 1938 (1938-12-26) (age 69)
Tehran, Iran
Occupation Film director, Theatre director, Screenwriter, Playwright

Bahram Bayzai (also spelt Bahram Beizai, Bahram Beyzaie, Persian: بهرام بیضایی , born 26 December 1938 in Tehran) is an Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the Theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the Theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. Usually a researcher or scientific researcher is someone who is professionally engaged in Scientific research, technological research or Engineering research

Bayzai is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes other pioneering directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, and Parviz Kimiavi. The cinema of Iran (or Persian cinema) is a flourishing film industry with a long history Abbas Kiarostami ( `Abbās Kiyārostamī born 22 June 1940 is an internationally acclaimed Iranian Film director, Screenwriter, and Film producer Forugh Farrokhzad (فروغ فرخزاد ( January 5, 1935 — February 14, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director Sohrab Shahid-Saless ( Sohrāb Shahǐd-Sāles,, b 28 June, 1944, Qazvin - d Parviz Kimiavi (پرويز کيمياوی Born 1939 Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian (Persian film director screenwriter editor and one of the most The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialog, references to traditional Persian art and culture and allegorical storytelling often dealing with political and philosophical issues. The Iranian cultural region - consisting of the modern nations of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and An allegory (from αλλος allos "other" and el αγορευειν agoreuein "to speak in public" is a figurative mode of representation

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Early career

Bahram Bayzai as a young man in the early 1960s during his period of Perisan artistic study
Bahram Bayzai as a young man in the early 1960s during his period of Perisan artistic study

Bayzai was interested in the arts from a very young age. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 In high school he wrote two historical plays which went on to become his preferred method of writing. He studied literature at Tehran University, but started skipping school from around the age of 17 in order to go to movies which were becoming popular in Iran at a rapid pace. The University of Tehran ( also known as Tehran University and UT, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. This only fed his hunger to learn more about the cinema of Iran and the visual arts. The cinema of Iran (or Persian cinema) is a flourishing film industry with a long history At the age of 21 he did substantial research on the traditional Persian plays, Book of Kings (Shahname) and Ta'zieh and by 1961 he had already spent a great deal of time studying-and researching other ancient Persian and pre-Islamic culture and literature. Shāhnāmé, or Shāhnāma ((alternative spellings are Shahnama Shahnameh Shahname Shah-Nama, etc Ta'zieh ( Persian: تعزیه means Condolence Theater and Naqqali are traditional Persian Theatrical genres in which the Drama layout and formatting it should ensure no clashes with the top of the infobox For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. This in turn led him to studying Eastern Theatre and traditional Iranian theatre and arts which would help him formulate a new non-western identity for Iranian theatre. He also became acquainted with Perisan painting.

By late 1961 he had already published numerous articles in various arts and literary journals. In 1962 he made his first short film (4 minutes) in 8mm format. In the next two years he wrote several plays and published "Theatre in Japan".

In the next eight or so years of his life throughout the early to late 1960s, Bayzai dedicated to writing in various publications about Eastern art and Persian literature enabled through his extensive study and also wrote a number of essays about Iranian cinema which later became the subject of one of his books. It is during this period he write the popular books which are often regarded as masterpieces; The Eight Voyage of Sinbad, Banquet, Serpant King, Dolls, The Story of the Hidden Moon and many more.

In 1968, Beyzai became one of the first people to join the Iranian Writer's Guild, a highly controversial organization in Iran in the face of censorship, known as the Khanun-e Nevisandegan-e-Iran. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor

Theatrical career and playwriting

Bayzai's early study and interest in drama and the theatre Less well-known is his early work as a dramatist. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. As a young man Bayzai had always been fascinated by the traditions of Iranian theatre, and this included the puppet theatre. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one A puppet is a representational figure manipulated by a Puppeteer. His Seh Nemayesh Nameh-ye 'Arusaki ("Three Puppet Plays") was published in 1963, and The Marionettes was the first of these three plays. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. But for all that it is unmistakably based on the model of the traditional puppet theatre, The Marionettes is shaped by other traditions too. A puppet is a representational figure manipulated by a Puppeteer. It is the work of someone au fait with the work of Pirandello and the Theatre of the Absurd. Luigi Pirandello ( June 28, 1867 — December 10, 1936) was an Italian Dramatist Novelist, and short The Theatre of the Absurd ( French: Théâtre de l'Absurde) is a designation for particular plays written by a number of primarily European Playwrights In the 1960s plays by dramatists such as Beckett and Ionesco were often translated into the Persian language and performed in Iran soon after their premieres in the West). Ionescu (or Ionesco, Jonesco - its Francisized equivalents is a Romanian surname (derived from the male given name Ion), and may Drawing on these varied influences, Bayzai's play is a little-known master-piece of twentieth-century drama.

The majority of his films such as Death of Yazdgerd have all been made into successful theatre/stage plays.

Cinematic career

In 1969 he began his film career by directing the short film Amoo Sibilou (Uncle Moustache)followed by Safar in 1970.

Immediately after in 1971 he made his first feature film Ragbar ( Downpour ) which to this day is regarded by critics as one of the most successful Iranian films ever made. The successful film addresses the late Parviz Fannizadeh as its central character and protagonist. Parviz Fannizadeh (1938 - February 23 1979 was a legendry award winning Iranian film and television star The Protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story. .

Since then he has produced and directed 8 films including Stranger and the Fog (Gharibe va Meh) (1974), Ballad of Tara (Cherikeye Tara) (1980), Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986, released in 1989), Shāyad Vaghti Deegar (1988) and Travellers (Mosaferan) (1992). Bashu is a 1986 Iranian Drama film directed by Bahram Beizai. He has also written the screenplay to Rooz-e Vaghe'e (Day of Incident) in 1995 and Fasl-e Panjom in 1996, whilst also editing Minoo Tower (Borj-e Minoo).

Cinematic style

He is known as the most intellectual and conspicuous “author” in Iranian cinema. The cinema of Iran (or Persian cinema) is a flourishing film industry with a long history The main theme of his works is the history and “crisis of identity” which is related to Iranian cultural and mythical symbols and paradigms. History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology

Reception and criticism

Bayzai has made significant contribution to the development of the Cinema of Iran and theatre and is regarded as one of the influential directors and innovators of the Iranian New Wave movement of cinema. The cinema of Iran (or Persian cinema) is a flourishing film industry with a long history He is also considered as Iran’s most prominent screenwriter in terms of dramatic integrity of his works, many of which have been made into films.

However, despite the popularity of his films and his substantial knowledge of the arts, like other Iranian film directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, the Government of Iran has never supported his career, neither before nor after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Abbas Kiarostami ( `Abbās Kiyārostamī born 22 June 1940 is an internationally acclaimed Iranian Film director, Screenwriter, and Film producer The politics and government of Iran takes place in the framework of a Republic with an Islamic ideology The Iranian Revolution' (mostly known as the Islamic Revolution, Persian: انقلاب اسلامی Enghelābe Eslāmi was the Revolution that transformed Even after some 20 years, his films such as Ballad of Tara (1980) and Death of Yazdgerd (1981) have never received a screening permit in Iran. Both films have been shelved because they are not in accordance with the Islamic code currently in operation in Iranian motion pictures. For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. Even Bashu, the Little Stranger almost reached the same fate in 1986 due to the fact the subject content of the film about a little boy orphaned by his parents lost in war. Bashu is a 1986 Iranian Drama film directed by Bahram Beizai. The film was only legalized after the end of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and was released in 1989.

Filmography (as a director)

Sagkoshi (Killing Mad Dogs) 2001
Sagkoshi (Killing Mad Dogs) 2001

Personal life

He is the husband of actress and make-up artist Mozhdeh Shamsai. Bashu is a 1986 Iranian Drama film directed by Bahram Beizai. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works His daughter, Niloufar Beyzaie, is a theater director and playwright.

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