Esmail Koushan
Persian film director (1917–1981)
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Esmail Koushan or Kooshan (Persian: اسماعیل کوشان; 1917–1981) was an Iranian film director who was one of the pioneering figures of Persian cinema. He has been called "the father of the Iranian film industry" by Georges Sadoul.[1]
Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Parsi.[2][3] He then set up the Mitrafilm company, which produced the first Iranian "talkie" feature film in 1948, The Storm of Life.[3]
Filmography
- The Storm of Life (1948) - producer
- Pretty Foe (1962)
