Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf was born on 29 May 1957 into a poor family in southern Tehran and worked from childhood. At fifteen he joined an armed Islamist group against the Shah; at seventeen he was shot and arrested while trying to disarm a policeman, whom he stabbed, and was sentenced to death. Freed by the revolution after nearly five years in prison, he came to cinema through militant film before breaking away from it. He founded a film school where his children trained, left Iran in 2005 and has lived in Paris since 2009.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Cyclistبایسیکل‌رانMohsen Makhmalbaf · 1988Cinema
• CinemaGabbehگبهMohsen Makhmalbaf · 1996Cinema