About Esmail Koushan
Lived 1917 – 1981 (aged 63–64). Esmail Koushan was an Iranian film director and screenwriter.
Esmail Koushan or Kooshan (; 1917–1981) was an Iranian film director who was one of the pioneering figures of Persian cinema. He has been called "the father of the Iranian film industry" by Georges Sadoul.
Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Parsi. He then set up the Mitrafilm company, which produced the first Iranian "talkie" feature film in 1948, The Storm of Life.
Filmography The Storm of Life (1948) - producer Pretty Foe (1962)
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Who was Esmail Koushan?
Persian film director
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Esmail Koushan was born in 1917 in Tehran.
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Esmail Koushan died in 1981 in Tehran.
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Esmail Koushan was a film director and screenwriter.
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Esmail Koushan was Iranian.
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