Marjan (film)

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Marjan
Directed byShahla Riahi
Written byMohammad Asemi
Manoochehr Keymaram
Story byMohammad Asemi
Produced byShahla Riahi
CinematographyAhmad Shirazi
Edited byAhmad Shirazi
Music byHosein Dehlavi
Running time
110 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Marjan is a 1956 Persian language film. It was the first Persian feature film in the history of Iranian cinema to be produced and directed by a Persian woman, Shahla Riahi, a well-known actress and singer. The 110-minute 35mm, black-and-white film was produced by Arya Film. The story, written for the screen by Mohammad Asemi, concerns a tribe of gypsies that settle near a village. [1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. Cinema in Iran, 1900-1979 - Page 144 Mohammad Ali Issari - 1989 That same year, the first Persian feature film in the history of Iranian cinema was produced and directed by a Persian woman. The film was Marjan (proper name), a 35mm, black-and-white film about 110 minutes long, produced and directed by Shahla, a well-known actress and singer. Marjan was the first production of Arya Film, established by Shahla the same year. The story, written for the screen by Mohammad Asemi, is about a tribe of gypsies that settles down near a village.
  2. A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The Industrializing ... 0822347741 Hamid Naficy - 2011 Shahla also relates that when her movie, Marjan, did not do well, the producer forced her to cut in Mahvash's song‐and‐dance clips to spice it up and to change its depressing ending so as to bring in spec‐tators.
  3. Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the ... 1137264128 Hamid Dabashi - 2012 - Could spell the word “stone” on the blackboard And the sparrows flew away from the top of the old tree.5 The earliest record of an Iranian woman filmmaker looking through a camera dates back to mid-1950s. Historians of Iranian cinema consider Shahla Riyahi's Marjan (1956) as the first occasion when a woman was identified as a filmmaker. Shahla Riyahi was already a popular actress of stage and screen by the time she made Marjan, but masculinist historiography has twice ...