Esmail Kushan

Esmail Kushan was born in Tehran in 1917, studied economics in Berlin and Vienna and cinema in Germany, then began in Turkey, in 1945, dubbing foreign films into Persian. Returning in 1946, he founded the studios Mitra Film and then Pars Film, published one of the country's first film magazines and directed nearly thirty films, producing nearly a hundred. Georges Sadoul called him the father of the Iranian film industry. President of the union of film industries, banned from filming in 1979, he died in Tehran in the early eighties.

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• CinemaشرمسارEsmail Kushan · 1950Cinema