Rasoul Mollagholipour ( Persian:رسول ملاقلی‌پور; also spelled Rasool Mollagholi Poor; 1955 – 6 March 2007) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter and

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

Career

He began his career as a photographer. He directed several short documentaries about the 1980–88

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Counci ...

. The film director won critical acclaim for the 16-mm "Neynava". His movie ''

Mim Mesle Madar ''M for Mother'' ( fa, میم مثل مادر, romanized: Mim Mesle Madar) is an Iranian film. Directed by Rasoul Mollaqolipour, the film stars Ali Shadman, Golshifteh Farahani and Hossein Yari. it was selected as the Iranian entry for the Bes ...

'' (M for Mother, 2006) was a huge success despite its tragic, intense, and shocking scenes. It was selected to represent

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 Turkmeni ...

in the

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category at the 2008 Oscars. He also wrote film scripts and acted as a jury member in

Fajr International Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. T ...

. ''Afternoon of the 10th Day'' was his last feature film.

Films

#'' Neynava'' (1983) #''

A Boat to the Beach Rasoul Mollagholipour (Persian:رسول ملاقلی‌پور; also spelled Rasool Mollagholi Poor; 1955 – 6 March 2007) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Career He began his career as a photographer. He direct ...

'' (1985) #''

The Flight in the Night ''The Flight in the Night'' (German: ''Die Flucht in die Nacht'') is a 1926 German silent film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Conrad Veidt, Robert Scholz and Angelo Ferrari.Soister & Battle p.193-196 It was based on the play '' Henry IV ...

'' (1986) #'' The Horizon'' (1988) #''

Majnoon ''Layla & Majnun'' ( ar, مجنون ليلى ; Layla's Mad Lover) is an old story of Arab origin, about the 7th-century Bedouin poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). "The Layla ...

'' (1990) #''

Khosoof ''The (Lunar) Eclipse'' ( fa, Khosoof) is a 1992 film by the Iranian director Rasool Mollagholipoor. Mollagholipoor also scripted the film which starred Hamid Abdolmaleki, Fariborz Arabnia Fariborz Arabnia ( fa, فریبرز عرب‌نیا) (b ...

'' (1992) #''The Refugee'' (1993) #''Gharche Sammi'' (''The Poisonous Mushroom'', 2002) #''

'' (2006) #''Afternoon of the 10th Day'' (2009 - Unfinished, completed by Mojtaba Raie)

References

External links

Official website
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Career

Films

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