''Marjan'' is a 1956
Persian language
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film. It was the first Persian feature film in the history of
Iranian cinema
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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
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Media
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was produced by Arya Film. The story, written for the screen by Mohammad Asemi, concerns a tribe of
gypsies
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that settle near a village.
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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 ...]
References
1956 films
Iranian drama films
1956 drama films
Iranian black-and-white films
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