Sohrab Shahid Saless
Date of Birth: 28 Jun 1944
Country: Iran
Biography: Sohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless (June 28, 1944 in Tehran, Iran – July 2, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century. After 1976 he worked in the cinema of Germany and was an important component of the film diaspora working in the German industry.
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Director), 12 (Writer)
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Mohamad Sardari has served for over thirty years in his remote railway crossing station. Dutifully he has lowered and raised the crossing guard each time a train has come by. In his small home his wife sits and makes rugs from sunrise to sunset; his son has long since left to join the military. With minimal contact with the outside world, Mohamad has long since settled into his quiet, uneventful life - a life that he sees no reason should ever change, nor does he desire it to do so... (IMDB Comments)
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Utopia is a 186 minute film regarded by critics as a "hard ghetto film" and is the tale of a pimp and his five girls. Many of his films produced while in Germany had German titles.
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The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. The boy helps his father in selling the latter's illegal fishing and helps his mother in shopping for her and bringing home water from a well. The three characters live together in only one room. Their life is austere. (imdb)
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This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish "guest workers" living in Germany. These workers live lives of great hardship, loneliness and deprivation in order to send money back to their families in Turkey. (Filmaffinity)
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Order (1980)
This off-beat psychological drama by Sohrab Shahid Saless dissects German post-war society with a cutting edge. Herbert (Heinz Lieven) is a solid, middle-class engineer who one day quits his job and ensconces himself at home (preferably in the bathroom), refusing to say very much to anyone. (imdb)
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Grabbes Letzter Sommer (1980) - TV Movie
Christian Dietrich Grabbes lived a very short life in the first half of the 19th century and is primarily known for his satire, skepticism, basurd theater and the fact that he presaged the Postmodern movement in literature. Hannibal and Don Juan and Faust are two of his better-known works. (Letterboxd.com)
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Hans - ein junge in deustchland (1985) - TV Movie
A young man lives through the end of World War 2. (imdb)
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Reifezeit (1975) - TV Movie
The everyday life of a boy coming of age, living with his prostitute mother, saving money, dreaming of a bicycle. (imdb)
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Wechselbalg (1987) - TV Movie
Luise and Hermann adopt a child called Gabi. It creates a conflict between Luise and Gabi. (MUBI.com)
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Der weidenbaum (1984) - TV Movie
Based on various short stories by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov. It's a crime story, but the films care about the simplicity, routine and repetitious aspects of Oldman's life (Main Character of Film) as much as the crime's aspects.
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The story revolves around a young man working in the butcher department of a department store. Shortly before his summer vacation, his already thin-meshed network of social relationships begins to tear further and further apart. (filmportal.de)
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Two boys quarrel over a football, which then turns into a bigger fight between their parents.
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Rosen für Afrika (1992) - TV Movie
A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years . Soon the relationship fails due to the aggressive, also destructive tendencies of the man who enters a deep personal crisis. When the marriage coined/shaped of force and Psychoterror goes finally into the breaks, the man looks for comfort in the alcohol and becomes criminal.
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