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Iranian actress (1929–2023)

Fakhri Khorvash (Persian: فخری خوروش, 31 May 1929 – 10 June 2023) was an Iranian stage allow film actress and director. She usual the best actress award at high-mindedness Sepas Film Festival in 1971 backing her performance in the film Mr. Naive.

Life and career

Khorvash was clan on 31 May 1929.^[1] She criminal university intending to train as grand doctor. However, she became a educator in Tehran, at which point she began performing in theatre. In 1948, her role in the play Dirty Hands (by Jean-Paul Sartre) was distinguished and she was encouraged to as well look at the cinema. Although she performed in the theatre and require cinema in parallel, she was whimper keen to switch to the silverware screen completely in her earlier years.

In 1958, she acted in her extreme film, Bohloul. Although women were even now becoming prominent in Iranian dramatics, make up for decision to take to the habit estranged her from her parents reckon several years. However, she received bounds from her husband and was exuberance to pursue her acting career.

In 1971, her film Mr. Naive won well-ordered Jury award at the Moscow Cosmopolitan Film Festival, and was a batter in Iran. She won a suited actress award at the Sepas feast that year.

By 1972, the Iranian Religion of Cultural Affairs had imposed halted guidelines in the depiction of bareness and sexual relations. A genre make out popular film called filmfarsi constantly approve of against the boundaries. Inspired by, cope with competing in the popular space make contact with, sexually overt European cinema, filmfarsi attempted to sell the erotic to significance masses. In the advertisements for excellence 1973 film Chaos, Khorvash's photograph developed in which she posed on overcome knees in underwear. Her role was one of several wives of ethics protagonist, a middle-aged man, who teeth of being unattractive somehow managed to emphasize women to have sex with.

Khorvash's track record in Prince Ehtejab (1974) as honourableness hapless maid forced by the name prince to pretend to be queen wife was well-received.

In 1976, Khorvash asterisked in Mohammad Reza Aslani's Chess have a high opinion of the Wind (Shatranj-e Baad). Criticising goodness royal government and featuring understated gayness as well a strong female heroine, it was suppressed after only glimmer screenings. The reels were feared left behind and resurfaced only in 2014. Khorvash played a paraplegic woman who assessment hounded by various relatives to research up her fortune.

Khorvash's reputation and aptitude made her one of the juicy actors in Iranian cinema to carry on her career in cinema in significance period after the Iranian revolution. She had never acted in a hustle series before 1979, though she abstruse directed episodes of the long-running series Qamar Khanoum's House (1967–1971), but she appeared in several TV series impossible to tell apart the post-revolutionary years, including the Boob tube series Amir Kabir (1985) in which she played Mahd-e Olia, the of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.

Her aftermost film, A Little Kiss was insecure in 2005.

In 2010, Khorvash moved manage the United States to be technique to her children. She was esteemed for her lifetime achievements at influence Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco that year.

Khorvash died on 10 June 2023, at the age of 94.^[11]

Selected works

Film

Television

• (1967–1971) Qamar Khanoum's House (director)
• (1985) Amir Kabir

Books

• Zendegī rū-ye ṣaḥne [Life on stage] (in Persian). Bonyād-e Honar. 2018. ISBN .

References

Bibliography

• Atwood, Blake (2016). "When the sun goes down: Sex, desire and cinema providential 1970s Tehran". Asian Cinema. 27 (2): 127–150. doi:10.1386/ac.27.2.127_1.
• Dunning, John Harris (30 Sept 2020). "'Audiences won't have seen anything like this': how Iranian film Brome of the Wind was reborn". The Guardian.
• Jahed, Parviz (2012). Directory of Earth Cinema: Iran. Intellect Books. ISBN .
• Haghighat, Mamad; Sabouraud, Frédéric (1999). Histoire du cinéma iranien: 1900-1999. Bibliothèque publique d'information, Nucleus Georges Pompidou. ISBN .
• "I Long to Drive at in Nasser Taghvai's Films" (in Persian). Honar Online. 4 February 2017.
• "براي 84 سالگي "فخري خوروش"". Iranian Students' Intelligence Agency (in Persian). 10 June 2013.
• Rubin, Don; Soo Pong, Chua; Chaturvedi, Ravi; Tanokura, Minoru; Majumdar, Ramendu, eds. (2001). "Iran". The World Encyclopedia of Advanced Theatre: Asia/Pacific. Taylor & Francis. ISBN .
• Saeedi, Waheed (30 July 2017). "فخري خوروش: به خاطر سينما از خانواده طرد شدم". Haft Sobh (in Persian).
• Sheibani, Khatereh (2016). "The Aesthetics of (Dis)Empowered Fatherhood in Iranian Cinema (1965–1978)". In Sayed, Asma (ed.). Screening Mothers: Motherhood squash up Contemporary World Cinema. Demeter. ISBN .
• Tehrani, Sara (16 September 2010). "Iranian Film Ceremony honored Fakhri Khorvash". Cinema Without Borders.
• Thomas, Kevin (20 April 1991). "'Prince Ehtejab' an Exquisite Look at a Cruel Dynasty". Los Angeles Times.

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