I am “Rasul” 70 years old; A man with big dreams
Fars News Agency – Cinema Group: Many cinematographers have changed the direction of cinema or caused its growth, some others are considered cinema teachers and train the new generation of the seventh art.
But Rasool Sadr is a filmmaker who has both developed a part of the concern of social cinema in Iran and introduced a new generation to cinema. He was a reporter, reporter and story writer for “Information” newspaper until 1359, and he started filmmaking with the movie “Rehaai”. It started in 1361.
During forty years of working in the cinema as a director, Sadr Aamili made thirteen films and created a new trend in subjects and of course actors and showed that he is concerned about the youth in both aspects.
A look at the works
“Deliverance” is the first film of this director, unfortunately, no information about its release is available, and the film “Tehran Symphony” made in 1372 was never released due to its short running time of 58 minutes.
“Chrysanthemums”; First release, first success
In 1364, in the midst of the holy defense years, in 1364, the film “Eagles” directed by Samuel Khachikian topped the list of the most watched films of the year with more than 3.2 million viewers.
In the meantime, the melodrama “Dauvid Flowers” by Rasul Sadr Aamili, which received five awards for the best male and female lead actors for Jamshid Meshaikhi and Parvaneh Masoumi, the best cinematography, the best editing, and the best music from the third Fajr Film Festival, by attracting more than 2 million and 200 thousand viewers took the third place in the table of the most watched movies of the year.
“Chrysanthemum Flowers” was one of the first melodrama starter works in post-revolutionary cinema, which introduced this cinematic movement.
“Autumn” continues the melodrama
Rasool Sadr Aamili started “Autumn” with an initial script called “On the Path of Thunder” written by Farid Mostafavi and Abolhasan Davoudi and rewrote it in collaboration with Fereydon Jirani and Khosro Dehghan to make the final version.
A film that was again welcomed by the audience. The number of viewers of the movie was slightly more than half of the audience of “Chrysanthemum Flowers” and with a figure of more than 1.2 million viewers, it managed to rank seventh in the most popular list of 1367.
Amin Tarakh, Ketayoun Riahi and Dariush Arjamand were among the actors of this movie.
“Victim” with two movie stars of the day
Abolfazl Pourarab, who was engaged to “The Bride” and Dariush Arjamand, who was in “Nakhoda Khurshid” and “The Last Curtain” on the stock exchange, appeared in the movie “Qurbani”, the fourth production of Rasool Sadr Aamili, in the role of father and son and as the main actors of this movie. .
In 1371, this movie was able to attract more than 600,000 viewers to cinema halls. Nasreen Moqanlu, who played a role in this movie.
“Sneaker Girl”, the beginning of the Girls Trilogy
5 years after making “Tehran Symphony” and not releasing it, Sadr Aamili made the first film of his trilogy for girls in 1377, which was well received: “A Girl with Sneakers”.
The screenplay of this work is by Fereydoun Farhoudi, which was written based on the original plan of Peyman Qasimkhani. The film was shown in Iranian cinemas in October 1378 and managed to attract more than one million and eight hundred thousand viewers to the theaters.
In this film, Sadr Aamili introduced Pegah Ahangarani to Iranian cinema.
“I have a song of fifteen years”, the best work
This movie is the best work of Rasool Sadr Aamili. In this film, she continued her previous girlish theme and this time she chose the Alidosti song from among the many who had auditioned for the role of the song to add a new actress to the cinema.
The song “I am fifteen years old” managed to have more than one million and 500 thousand viewers at the box office in 2001, and after “Red Hat and Saronaz” and with only thirteen thousand less viewers, it was ranked second in the list of the most popular songs of the year.
“I saw your father last night, Aida”, the first ending of the trilogy
In 2003, Sadr Aamili completed the third movie of his trilogy by making “Yesterday Babatu Didim Aida”. After auditioning more than a hundred faces, he used an unfamiliar face for the first role of this film: Sophie Kiani. This time, the main character of the film was worried about someone else but himself.
He notices the presence of another woman in his father’s life, and the curiosity to know this woman is the main focus of the film. The film failed to attract the audience. So that only 220,000 viewers watched the movie in 2004, and it was ranked 23rd, the third film of Sadr Aamili’s trilogy.
The second trilogy, the pilgrim
After the end of the trilogy for girls, Sadr Aamili made another trilogy based on pilgrimage, he started these three films with designs by Asghar Farhadi, so that “Every Lonely Night”, “Shab” and “Awaiting Miracles” were Sadr Aamili’s second trilogy.
“Every lonely night” and “Shab” were made in 2006 and 2007 and were shown in cinemas in 2008 and 2010, respectively, and “Waiting for a Miracle” never reached the silver screen.
“Night” was made with three prominent actors from three generations of Iranian cinema, so that Ezzatullah Tzamami, Khosro Shakibaei and Amin Hayai will act together in this film.
“Shab” was screened at the 26th Fajr Film Festival and the film only managed to win the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor for Amin Hayai.
“Night” was released in 2008 and about 30 thousand viewers went to the cinema for it.
“Every lonely night” was present in the 27th edition of Fajr Film Festival and did not achieve success, this film was shown in cinemas in 2010 and while “Ejected 2” stood at the top in cinemas with more than five million viewers. , attracted about two hundred and thirty thousand audience.
“living with closed eyes”
After making the “Pilgrim” trilogy, Sadr Aamili once again started making a harsh and bitter social film: “Life with Closed Eyes”. The inflammatory subject of the film and Sadr Aamili’s bitter look, despite the use of well-known, well-known and popular actors such as Taraneh Alidousti and Hamed Behdad, and despite the fact that it was shown in cinemas in September 2010, it could not be successful in attracting the audience.
The film was released in 1390 (the same year that another film by Sadr Aamili “Shab” was released at the end of Bahman) had only slightly more than 180,000 viewers and stood at the fourteenth place in the sales chart.
The movie “The second year of my college”
After about 6 years away from cinema, Sadr Aamili returned in 2016 with a screenplay by Parviz Shahbazi to his three-girl space. This time, the university and students were the focus of the film.
This film was not very successful in the 36th Fajr Film Festival among writers and critics as well as judges, and even though it was released in October 2018, it failed to attract young people to the cinema. “The second year of my college” had only 90 thousand viewers.
Sadr Aamili and the beginning of production / the beginning of introducing the new generation of directors
Rasool Sadr Aamili, who had introduced many actors to Iranian cinema for years as a director, accepted the production of various works from *** to introduce new generation directors this time.
The beginning of Sadr Aamili’s production began with a high point, the first experience of “Butterfly Swimming” was the first production of Mohammad Kart, which caused a lot of noise as one of the best films of the last few years, and once again Sadr Aamili’s name became popular as a successful producer. .
“The Orange Jungle” by Mawafaq Iman Khansarian is the second experience of Rasool Sadr Aamili in production, the film became a favorite of critics at the 40th Fajr Film Festival and brought many reactions with it, so Sadr Aamili once again brought a young and promising director to the cinema. interducing.
Screenwriting experience for others, successful and popular
The script “I want to stay alive” written by Rasul Sadr Aamili with a look at the real story of Pedram Tajrishi’s murder by Iraj Qadri who started his new filmmaking career after 10 years away from cinema was made in 1373 and in 1374 with two million and five hundred thousand viewers. “Flight from Camp” was named the second most popular movie of the year.
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