Rimon Butros

Rimon Butros was born on 16 February 1950 in Hama, the son of a stonecutter whom he accompanied to the quarries as a child. A scholarship student, he obtained in 1976 a master's degree in directing in Kyiv, where one of his student films won a prize in 1974 at the Soviet film schools festival. He then directed four feature films and some fifteen documentaries, almost all focused on his city and the Orontes. A translator from Russian, an editor at Syrian radio and a critic, he edited a newspaper in 2001. He died in a hospital in Damascus on 2 March 2020.

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• Feature filmالترحالRimon Butros · 1997Cinema