Esmail Koushan ''or Kooshan'' ( fa, اسماعیل کوشان) (1917–1981) was an Iranian film director who was one of the pioneering figures of

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cinema. He has been called "the father of the

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ian film industry" by

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. Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into

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.A BRIEF CRITICAL HISTORY OF IRANIAN FEATURE FILM (1896-1975)
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'', retrieved 2011-01-29''Film'', Issues 59-67 (1972), p. 13, British Federation of Film Societies 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)

References

Iranian film directors Persian-language film directors 1917 births 1981 deaths {{Iran-film-director-stub

Filmography

See also

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