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Koker, Iran
Koker () is a village in Rostamabad, Gilan Iran. Koker is a small mud-brick village which became famous through three films made by Abbas Kiarostami known as "Koker Trilogy". In the early 1990s the well-known Koker trilogy of films, directed by Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of ..., were filmed in the village, which was devastated by the 1990 earthquake. Populated places in Gilan Province {{iran-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostamabad, Gilan
Rostamabad ( fa, رستم آباد, also Romanized as Rostamābād and Rustamābād; formerly, Galūraz, Kalooraz, Kalūraz, and Kuluruz), is a city in the Central District of Rudbar County, in Gilan Province, northern Iran. It is located on the Sefīd-Rūd river in the Alborz (''Elburz'') mountain range. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,987, in 3,234 families. Climate Rostamabad has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: ''Cfa,'' Trewartha Trewartha and Andrewartha are Cornish family names (and placename, Dexter). There are places called Trewartha in the parishes of Merther, St Agnes, St Neot and Veryan. According to the ''Handbook of Cornish Names'' by G. Pawley White, "Trew ...'': Cf''), with warm, humid summers and cool, wet winters. References Cities in Gilan Province Populated places in Rudbar County Settled areas of Elburz {{Rudbar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koker Trilogy
The Koker trilogy is a series of three films directed by acclaimed Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami: ''Where Is the Friend's Home?'' (1987), '' Life, and Nothing More...'' (a.k.a. ''And Life Goes On'', 1992) and ''Through the Olive Trees'' (1994). The designation was made by film theorists and critics, rather than by Kiarostami himself, who resists the designation and notes that the films are connected only by the accident of place (referring to the fact that Koker is the name of a northern Iranian village). He has suggested that it might be more appropriate to consider the latter two titles plus '' Taste of Cherry'' (1997) as a trilogy, since these are connected by the theme of life's preciousness. Plot ''Where Is the Friend's Home?'' depicts the simple story of a young boy who travels from Koker to a neighbouring village to return the notebook of a schoolmate. ''Life and Nothing More'' follows a father and his young son as they drive from Tehran to Koker in search of the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including short film, shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the ''Koker trilogy, Koker'' Koker trilogy, trilogy (1987–1994), ''Close-Up (1990 film), Close-Up'' (1990), ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' (1999), and ''Taste of Cherry'' (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, ''Certified Copy (film), Certified Copy'' (2010) and ''Like Someone in Love (film), Like Someone in Love'' (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films ''Where Is the Friend's House?, Where Is the Friend's Home?'' (1987), ''Close-Up'', and ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' were ranked among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Manjil–Rudbar Earthquake
The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on Thursday, June 21, 1990 at in northern Iran. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.4 and a Mercalli Intensity of X (''Extreme''). Damage and casualties Widespread damage occurred to the northwest of the capital city of Tehran, including the cities of Rudbar and Manjil. The National Geophysical Data Center estimated that $8 billion in damage occurred in the affected area. Other earthquake catalogs presented estimates of the loss of life in the range of 35,000–50,000, with a further 60,000–105,000 that were injured. Use in media Acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami has fictionally incorporated the earthquake and its effects on northern Iran into multiple films of his. In ''And Life Goes On'' (1992), a director and his son search for child actors from a previous Kiarostami film; ''Where Is the Friend's Home?'' (1986), which was shot in a city that, by the time of the second film's production, is recovering from the earthqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
