He drew attention of foreign countries on Iranian cinema, won awards at Cannes and Venice: With 76 years Abbas Kiarostami, one of the most famous filmmakers of his home, died in Paris.
the news of his death sparked in Iran grief and consternation. “His profound and unconventional attitude and his message of peace and friendship will always remain in our memories,” President Hassan Rouhani wrote on Twitter.
funeral in Tehran planned
Kiarostami died Monday after several months of illness, such as the Iranian cultural Institute house of Cinema on Tuesday confirmed. The director suffered since the end of March on gastrointestinal cancer and had already been operated on twice in a hospital in Tehran. In May he was discharged to continue treatment in France. According to the ISNA news agency he is to be buried in Tehran.
Born in Tehran in 1940 director made his feature film trilogy about a village in Iran, “Where is the Friend’s Home” (1987), “And the Band Played On” (1991) and “Across the olive grove “(1994) attracted international attention.
Palme d’Or for” taste of cherry “
at the film festival in Cannes 1997, he received the Palme d’Or for his film” the taste of cherry “- the story of a suicide, which is also a passionate plea for life and liberty. The presentation of the film in Cannes had wanted to prevent the regime in Tehran initially.
For a peck with the French actress Catherine Deneuve at the awards ceremony he acted at home at fundamentalists again trouble a. Two years later, Kiarostami took at the Film Festival in Venice the Grand Jury Prize for “The wind will carry us”.
Kiarostami is committed to release a director-colleagues
For her role in his 2010 presented in Cannes film “Copie Conforme” (Copie Conforme) received Juliette Binoche the best actress award. Kiarostami sat down then in Cannes with a moving appeal for the release of the then imprisoned in his native Iranian director Jafar Panahi one. “I have done this, because you would expect from me, and I myself have expected from me – a colleague of mine was in trouble, I had to do something for him,” he said a little later in an interview with the German Press . -Agentur in Munich, where he received the top prize of the Munich film festival
but he also made it clear: “of course I have privately an opinion, I take a stand, but my films are not contaminated with political issues and news will. I believe that the more art gets involved in everyday things, the more it loses its originality or its essence. “
career began
His colleagues in Iran with short films paid tribute to Kiarostami. “You were the standard bearer of the Iranian films abroad and will be remembered as a pioneer in the history”, actor and Cannes Award winner Shahab Hosseini said. Also the head of Iran’s Film Museum was deeply shocked. “That was a shock, which will accompany the Iranian art scene for a long time,” said Mohammad Jejdari.
Kiarostami began his career initially with short films. The film “The Passenger” in 1974 made him the first time known and has been awarded several prizes. After the 1979 Iranian revolution, Kiarostami, who also worked as a poet, in the country and continued from there his work as a filmmaker stayed away. He had at that time, although, like many other Persian artists the opportunity to go abroad, but chose to stay because he was able to develop artistically better by its own account in the home. But in the last 20 years he was in France at home.
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