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Filmmaker · Iran

Mehdi Raisfiruz

Died in 2019

Mehdi Rais Firuz was born in Tehran in 1927; his father having died in 1941, the family went north, where he finished secondary school in Shahsavar. He entered the Tehran faculty of law intending to become a judge, left it for an acting school, then wrote, produced, directed and acted for more than forty years, from melodrama to the film drawn from religious tales, some of which were shown as far as Turkey, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Settled in Canada, he died in Toronto on 15 March 2019.

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