Rasool Sadr Ameli’s account of an interview with a murderer / drowned in a cinema

Theater News Base: The Museum of Iranian Cinema continues to publish its series of oral history sessions on the occasion of Rasool’s birthday صدرعاملی The veteran director of Iranian cinema has excerpts from this artist’s oral history conversation that took place in May and June. 1400 Has published the data, which you can read below.

رسول صدرعاملی Saying that December 1333 Born in Isfahan, Foroughi Street, he said: I was in Isfahan until I was four years old and I was going to Hosseini Islamic Primary School, which had a kindergarten. A man named Seyed Reza would follow me and four others in the morning and take us home in the afternoon. All three months of summer in the house of aunts and Grandmothers I spent time with my cousin, with whom I was the same age, and we spent most of the summers together.

One Toman coin Grand mother And the first appearance in the cinema

In response to Fereydoun Jirani’s question about where he first went to the cinema, he replied: I remember when I was 9 years old, I took a one toman coin from my grandmother’s bag and gave it to Cinemayak I went to Chaharbagh in Isfahan and saw the movie “Titan” and the second time I went to the cinema alone in Tehran, I saw the movie “Ganj-e Qarun”.

صدرعاملی Noting that he is very interested in reading newspapers and Journal He added: “My interest in reading newspapers and Journal It was from kindergarten. I remember our alley one دکه He would bring a newspaper every day at four o’clock in the afternoon, and a few boys older than me would buy it and read it, and I was very sorry because I loved reading the newspaper and Journal I was and started reading with the boys and girls magazine. I did not have the money to buy them from the same دکه On our street, I rented all the newspapers, the children’s universe, and the weekly information for boys and girls for five rials, borrowed them, read them, and returned them.

The director of “A Girl in Sneakers” stated: “I went to the Dar al-Fonun on Naser Khosrow Street from the 10th of high school. Of course, my father did not agree and I registered myself because I had heard that it was a good place. More importantly That it was close to the information newspaper. I went to the boys ‘and girls’ information office, and there was a man named Bijan Emami, whom I was very fond of, because he talked to us well in the weekly magazines that we attended as the magazine’s honorary reporter and taught us what the news was and how to prepare it. they do.

He said that he was very interested in the news of the incidents, adding: “I even worked in the incident service when I went to the newspaper.” I remember in 1955, I brought a killer wanted by the police to the newspaper for an interview and interviewed him about what had happened. Of course, he did not know that I was می I know He is a murderer. At that time, cinema was not my problem at all and I just liked watching movies and I saw all the movies.

The first interview with the actors of the movie “Mongols”

صدرعاملی Stating that his best interview in the weekly information was with the actors of the movie “Mongols”, he said: This interview is unique in my opinion. Nobody saw the movie but because it was made by TV every night Trailer های The movie was playing and I had memorized all the names. It was a Wednesday with Mahmoud Mohammadi As a photographer, we went to Gorgan and found all the actors in the film, I interviewed them and it was published in full.

Live memory of Khosrow Shakibaei The first choice for “Autumn”

Jirani addressed to صدرعاملی He said: I remember one day in the card office at your door Talking I saw patience with the living memory of Khosrow. I did not know patience at that time and you told me that he is a good actor.

صدرعاملی Following the words of Jirani, he explained: The first Select For the movie «پاییزانKhosrow Shakibaei was remembered alive, but it was possible because he was the head of filming “Train” His presence It was not possible and this was one of the regrets of me and Khosrow. During the making of “Night”, Khosrow Shakibaei told me that he really wanted to play in that film.

Live memory of Davood Rashidi The turning point of the movie “Liberation”

Referring to the film “Liberation”, he said: “A very good thing happened in the film and I am very confident.” Gave presence Davood Rashidi was alive. I remember for this film, I went to him at 9 pm. We talked about the story of the film, which he accepted, and as a veteran and trusted actor who was trusted by Iranian cinema, his presence among the actors of the film and his support for me was very effective. Davood Rashidi used to tell me that he has worked with other directors and they are also good, but they have less of a feeling for me, and during the filming, he always paid attention to me so that I would not be weakened by the group.

“Chrysanthemums”; The most important movie

صدرعاملی Addressing Fereydoun Jirani, who was talking to him, he said: “Gol های “Davoodi” is my most important film, in “Liberation” you wrote the script and you had nothing to do with me because there was no sequence in Tehran and it was all shot in the south, but in “Gol های Davoodi »From the moment the story originated with me Along You were.

He continued: You Believes You were “Chrysanthemums” wants a very sensitive and important make-up due to the blind condition. That is why you introduced Abdullah Eskandari and Abbas Ganjavi. It shone well and Leila پیرزاد He also collaborated with us from the movie “Liberation”. We filled the area around these two actors with the best of Iranian cinema and theater. Abbas Ganjavi came to compile and Roshan Ravan came to compose the music, we did all this in coordination and it became “Gol های Davoodi “and a good event in 1363.

“A girl in sneakers”; After six years of unemployment

صدرعاملی He also explained about “A Girl in Sneakers”: When the idea for this film came up, I was unemployed for six years. One night we were at Saeed Motalebi’s house and I told him only one Asthma I have in mind; A girl in sneakers and she said what do you mean? In response, I said that he is a teenager who leaves home one day, walks from Valiasr Square to the railway square on the edge of the street table, and during this city trip, adventures happen to him. Saeed Motalebi said it is a good idea but it is not my job. He has several students in Simafilm And told me that a young boy had just come to class who I think is very talented. I asked him his name and he was Peyman. قاسمخانی Introduced to me. قاسمخانی With spring guide in the movie Alireza داوودنژاد They had played. I signed a 900 thousand toman contract with him and we talked about the script two days a week until the script was finished.

Introducing Alidosti song by Amin history

He also explained about the movie “I am 15 years old”: In the middle of editing the movie “Girl in Sneakers”, I thought about how to write a story about a girl who is not emotional, has a lot of rationality and logic, and solves the problems of life herself. Body To solve. I found out that Kambozia had worked its beam; I talked to him; He liked the plot and it took him almost a year to prepare the script.

صدرعاملی He stated: I remember I gave an advertisement in the cinema weekly which was very attractive. The text of the ad was “I’m 15 years old, I’m a good girl. If you know this character, introduce us.” We were actually looking for an actor. That Alidosti’s song had seen this advertisement. Amin history He called me and said that Taraneh is the daughter of Hamid Alidosti and introduced her to me to appear in the film. We had seen 80 people for this role, Habib Rezaei was choosing an actor for the first time and he had gone to many schools to choose this role.

He continued: “The song sounded good, but he could not manage it.” Of course, we left each actor, we had to work on his voice for two months because the character of the story had three tones; The tone of a student, the tone of pregnancy, and the tone of a mother whose voices are different. It took us three months to work on his voice, and during that time I never told him that his presence was certain for the song, and I told him exactly 48 hours before filming that he was certain for the role. the first Location The production that gave me the production was Rajai Shahr Prison. In prison, we had the beginning, middle, pregnancy, motherhood, and end of the film, and I only had eight days to do so.

Drowning in cinema

صدرعاملی In the end, he said: “In those years, when we were making a film, we did not think at all about whether it would sell or not, whether the festival would go or not, and when writing the script and filming, we thought with all our might that we would do the right thing.” It caused a spirit in the works Blown Be. Like the films “Senator”, “Sunshine” and… these were worked with heart and soul, and even in the film “Red” that you made (Fereydoun Jirani) you did not make to the audience; We were immersed in cinema and the thing we all always said was how can we Our spectators Surprise and make the audience see the picture in absolute silence, and many times we succeed.