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Filmmaker · Iran

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Died in 1998

Sohrab Shahid Saless was born on 28 June 1944, in Tehran or in Qazvin depending on the sources. He left for Vienna in 1962, where he studied theatre directing and cinema; suffering from tuberculosis, he interrupted his studies in 1967 and completed them in Paris, at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français. Back in Iran in 1968, he made about twenty short films and documentaries for the Ministry of Culture. Settled in West Germany in the mid-seventies, he made films there for cinema and television, then moved to the United States and died in Chicago in July 1998.

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