Mohammad Reza Aslani (b. 1943)

Alias:
محمدرضا اصلانی
默罕默德·雷沙·亚斯兰尼

Birthplace:
Rasht, Iran

Born:
December 9, 1943

Mohammad Reza Aslani was born in Rasht, Iran, in 1943 and graduated in Art and painting from Teheran’s Faculty of decorative arts.  He spent his filmmaking training in the Ministry of Culture.  Aslani started his professional carrier in cinema in 1967 with the documentary film “Hasanlu Cup”, and then worked with another project “Child and exploitation (1982)”, a documentary made with the aim of display for management community.  It was one of the best documentaries made in Iran in eighties. But shortly after its release it was informally banned and marginalized in 1982.  Aslani’s first feature film called “The chess game of the Wind” (1976) was a new and different experience in Iranian cinema, which also was very daring.  Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo began her artistic activity with this movie by playing the role of a servant.  Aslani made television series like “Samak Ayyar,” “light mist,” “logic of the flight”, script writing for movies such as “line”, “switchman”, “The Silent City,” “bottleneck,” “Requiem”, “the fourth morning,” “Stone Garden”.  He wrote three books of poetry, “Bench Nights and Wind Days,” “The difference between the two Maghreb” and “Requiem for prohibited years”. Teaching at academies of Sura and cinema and theater, writing critical essays and comments about cinema is among Aslani’s other activities. His professional activities are enumerated. —onlinefilmhome.dk

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Dialogue:
1973  The Mongols

Director:
1964  Hassanlou Cup: The Tale of the One Who Asks
1968  Jameh Mosque of Fahraj
1970  Abu Rayhan Biruni
1970  The Quail: The Tale of a Boy Who Asks
1972  Our Cultural Heritage
1973  The Mongols
1975  Tarikhaneh
1976  Chess of the Wind
1977  Therefore Hangs a Tale
1982  Child and Exploitation
1996  Chigh
2002  Hands of Hegmataneh
2007  The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man
2008  The Green Fire
2012  Tehran, A Conceptual Art
2014  Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing
2024  The Dust of Light
????  With Permission

Scenario Writer:
1964  Hassanlou Cup: The Tale of the One Who Asks
1968  Jameh Mosque of Fahraj
1970  Abu Rayhan Biruni
1970  The Quail: The Tale of a Boy Who Asks
1972  Our Cultural Heritage
1973  The Mongols
1975  Tarikhaneh
1976  Chess of the Wind
1977  Therefore Hangs a Tale
1982  Child and Exploitation
1996  Chigh
2002  Hands of Hegmataneh
2007  The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man
2008  The Green Fire
2012  Tehran, A Conceptual Art
2014  Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing
2024  The Dust of Light
????  With Permission

Screenplay:
1964  Hassanlou Cup: The Tale of the One Who Asks
1968  Jameh Mosque of Fahraj
1970  Abu Rayhan Biruni
1970  The Quail: The Tale of a Boy Who Asks
1972  Our Cultural Heritage
1973  The Mongols
1975  Tarikhaneh
1976  Chess of the Wind
1977  Therefore Hangs a Tale
1982  Child and Exploitation
1996  Chigh
2002  Hands of Hegmataneh
2007  The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man
2008  The Green Fire
2012  Tehran, A Conceptual Art
2014  Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing
2024  The Dust of Light
????  With Permission

Writer:
1964  Hassanlou Cup: The Tale of the One Who Asks
1968  Jameh Mosque of Fahraj
1970  Abu Rayhan Biruni
1970  The Quail: The Tale of a Boy Who Asks
1972  Our Cultural Heritage
1973  The Mongols
1973  The Morning of the Fourth Day
1975  Tarikhaneh
1976  Chess of the Wind
1976  The Garden of Stones
1977  Therefore Hangs a Tale
1982  Child and Exploitation
1996  Chigh
2002  Hands of Hegmataneh
2007  The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man
2008  The Green Fire
2012  Tehran, A Conceptual Art
2014  Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing
2024  The Dust of Light
????  With Permission

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