Abbas Kiarostami is a great poet of Iranian cinema

Abbas Kiarostami is an Iranian filmmaker who has shot a number of highly artistic poetic films widely known in Iran.

The film "Taste of cherry", Abbas Kiarostami took it off in 1997, brought the director world fame. Abbas also earned many prestigious international film awards during his time.

Creative way: the beginning

Abbas Kiarostami was born on June 22, 1940 in the capital of Iran, Tehran. Since childhood, Kiarostami was fond of painting. At 18, the guy even won a competition of artists. His passion for painting pushed him to leave the house and enter the School of Fine Arts at Tehran University. Specialization Abbas chose graphic design and drawing. To be able to live on, while studying Kiarostami worked as a regulator.

In the 1960s, Abbas earned his living by advertising. He drew posters and came up with creative ideas for advertising companies. Over the period from 1962 to 1966, the director shot about 150 commercials for Iranian television.

The next step in the career of the guy was the creation of titles for movies and illustrations for children's books.

Cinema

In the 1970s, Kiarostami began to make his own films. He worked very productively - more than 40 tapes were released during this period of his life by Abbas Kiarostami. Films of this category are not only artistic but also documentary, both full-length and short.

For the first time as a director, a man was talked about after the release of his "Cocker trilogy." It includes films "Where is a friend's house?", "And life goes on," "Through the olives." The tapes are connected with each other by a small Coker village in the north of Iran.

In 1990, the screenshot comes out with the picture "Close-up" about a scammer who pretended to be a film-maker. The trial of the main character had to decide whether to consider his actions a mere crime or an act of creativity.

"Taste of cherry"

The director himself did not consider the first film part of the trilogy. In his opinion, the second and third films were more suited to the picture "Taste of cherry", which he shot in 1997. In his opinion, for all these works the general was not so much the place of action as the basic idea - the value of life.

In the film "The Taste of Cherry", Abbas touches on the topic of suicide and how reasonable and appropriate it is. The painting was warmly received by critics around the world and brought to the director the "Golden Palm Tree" at the Cannes Film Festival.

World Recognition

In 1990, Abbas Kiarostami's tape "The Wind Will Take Us". The film falls into the program of the Venice Film Festival. Speech in this work of the director is about how different representations about life in urban and rural residents. The concepts of labor, sexual equality, progress are compared. A feature of the film was that some of the characters are not shown in the frame. Only their voices are heard. The jury of the film festival awarded the ribbon with the prize "Silver Lion".

The next significant award awaited Abbas in 2000. In San Francisco, the director was awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for director achievements. Kiarostami did not leave a reward to himself. He gave it to actor Behrouz Vosugi from Iran to express his gratitude to him for what he does for Iranian cinema.

The new creation of Abbas, the painting "Five", was released in 2003. In this work the creators managed without dialogues and characters. The film is a five-piece snapshot of nature. The action takes place on the coast of the Caspian Sea.

The film "The Copy is True" appeared before the public in 2010. Abbas Kiarostami shot him not in Iran, which is not typical for the director. In the picture, a Frenchwoman and a Briton collide. "Copy is true" tells about the consequences of this collision. The film claimed the "Golden Palm Tree" of the Cannes Film Festival. As a result, the award was given to the actress Juliette Binoche, who performed the main role in this film.

The new work of the author - the film "Like Someone in Love" was released in 2010. Reviews received mixed. The film was shot in Japan.

Last works

In the last years of his life, Abbas preferred to deal with documentary and pseudo-documentary tapes.

Work "Alphabet: Africa" tells us about the travel director for Africa. The film "Ten" is a story of ten girls, a minibus passenger, built in the form of a conversation between them and the driver. Among them there is both a prostitute and a deeply religious woman.

The director withdrew one of the novellas for the almanac "Ticket". Together with him, Ermano Olmi and Ken Loach worked on the almanac. The action in the story unfolds in the car of the European fast train.

Kiarostami has had a significant impact on many young filmmakers in Iran and around the world. The director-dissident Jafar Panahi in the script of Abbas withdrew the band "Crimson Gold" in 2003. The painting aroused great interest of the Cannes Film Festival, but was banned for display in Iran itself.

In recent years, Abbas got carried away with photography. In the world's largest capitals, photo exhibitions took place, where Abbas Kiarostami exhibited his works at the public court. The photos he made were mostly landscape. They have fields, mountains, trees. As in his other works, he tried to reflect on the images of eternity and time in the photo.

Death

Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4, 2016 in Paris. At that moment he was 76 years old. The cause of death is the mistake made by the Iranian doctors, who made the famous director remove the polyps in the intestines. After this intervention, Kiarostami started complications and sepsis. He went to France for treatment, but it was too late. In France, the director discovered cancer. The funeral was organized in Tehran.