Farrokh Ghaffari

Farrokh Ghaffari was born in Tehran in 1922, the son of a diplomat, and lived in Europe from the age of ten. In Paris, he was Henri Langlois's assistant at the Cinémathèque française and secretary of the International Federation of Film Archives, then returned to found the National Film Centre in Tehran. In 1957 he created his studio, Iran Nama; his first feature film was banned after five evenings. He worked for national television, directed the Shiraz arts festival, returned to Paris after the revolution, wrote for Positif there and died there in 2006.

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• CinemaNight of the Hunchbackشب قوزیFarrokh Ghaffari · 1965Cinema