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Filmmaker · Iran

Parviz Khatibi

Died in 1993

Parviz Khatibi was born in Tehran in May 1923, a grandson through his mother of Mirza Reza Kermani. As a teenager he published satirical verse in Towfigh, of which he became one of the editors, staged comedies with his troupe, then founded the satirical weekly Haji Baba. Having joined Radio Tehran in 1949, he wrote a great many sketches there, and gave Delkash and Vigen a song that has remained famous. Imprisoned after the coup d'état of 1953, he made some twenty films, went into exile after the revolution and died in Los Angeles in 1993.

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