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Filmmaker · Iran

Ebrahim Moradi

Died in 1977

Ebrahim Moradi was born in Bandar Anzali around 1899, was a pupil of Grigor Yeghikian at the city's school, joined the Jangal movement and took refuge in the Soviet Union, where he learned photography and cinema. Back in his own country, he founded the Jahan-Nama studio in Anzali and began a first film that he could not finish, then settled in Tehran. He filmed again in the fifties, hand-coloured a film of 1960, left cinema in 1972 to found a school for gifted children and died in Tehran in 1977.

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