Esmail Koushan Explained

Esmail Koushan or Kooshan (fa|اسماعیل کوشان‎; 1917–1981) was an Iranian film director who was one of the pioneering figures of Persian cinema. He has been called "the father of the Iranian film industry" by Georges Sadoul.^[1]

Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Parsi.^{[2] [3]} He then set up the Mitrafilm company, which produced the first Iranian "talkie" feature film in 1948, The Storm of Life.

Filmography

• The Storm of Life (1948) - producer
• Pretty Foe (1962)

See also

• Iranian cinema

Notes and References

1. Sadoul, Georges (1949) Histoire du Cinema Mondial des Origines a Nous Jours, Flammarion, p. 485
2. "A BRIEF CRITICAL HISTORY OF IRANIAN FEATURE FILM (1896-1975) ", University of Washington, retrieved 2011-01-29
3. Film, Issues 59-67 (1972), p. 13, British Federation of Film Societies