Parviz Kimiavi

Parviz Kimiavi


in Tehran, Iran
Parviz Kimiavi (Persian: پرويز کيمياوی‎‎; Born 1939, Tehran) is an Iranian (Persian) film director, screenwriter, editor and one of the most prominent figures of Persian cinema of the 20th century.

Kimiavi studied photography and film at l'École Louis Lumière (Louis Lumiere School of Cinematography) and IDHEC. His works gained critical success and won several prizes in important international events such as Berlin and Cannes.

Movies for Parviz Kimiavi...

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
Title: Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.
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Concerning Nice
Title: Concerning Nice
Character: The movie director (segment "Repérages")
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.
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Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!
Title: Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!
Released: February 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In this film that sends up the foibles of filmmaking, a standard crew of actors, stage-hands, director, writers, producers, and others are gathered for the filming of a 45-second automobile commercial. Each role embodies an archetype (the harried director who has a deadline to meet, the Scrooge production manager who has a budget to meet, and the writers who are above these mundane concerns), and these personalities drive the working actors over the edge until they decide to lock them up and do their own thing -- happiness can be just around the corner if you are in the driver's seat. Hopefully, the actors will be able to bow out before the police catch on to the situation.
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The Mongols
Title: The Mongols
Character: Director
Released: October 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province. He has already hired Turkmen tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diegetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
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The Hills of Qaytariyeh
Title: The Hills of Qaytariyeh
Released: April 29, 1969
Type: Movie
A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. This short narrates the story of the dead people who wished never to be found.
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The Last Whisky
Title: The Last Whisky
Character: The Indian
Released: December 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Parviz Kimiavi's student film, a short silent Western