The Iranian director, storyteller and novelist Ibrahim Golestan (his real name is Ibrahim Taqwa Shirazi) passed away at the age of 101. He is a director, writer, translator and journalist who produced and directed many Iranian films and is famous for his special style of directing. Rather, he is one of the founders of the “new wave” in Iranian cinema…
He joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Tehran, but did not complete his studies and joined the Iranian Tudeh Party and became its representative in Mazandaran Province… He defected from the Tudeh Party and went to the city of Abadan, where he worked in the media department of the Iranian-British Petroleum Company. He founded the Golestan Studio and filmed some advertising films for the centers affiliated with the oil company.
Poet Forough Farrokhzad was a young woman when she came to the large studio, which Golestan managed, in Tehran, and hired her as a telephone operator. She had been divorced from an early marriage (16 years) and left Ahwaz, where she was staying with her husband, and returned to Tehran. What is certain is that after a few months of her employment, she had an affair with him and did not remain a telephone operator. In her record there is a movie they worked on together.
And from her letters To him: “I feel that I have lost my whole life, I should have known much less than the experience of twenty-seven years, perhaps the reason lies in the fact that my life was not luminous, love, and my ridiculous marriage at sixteen earthquake the pillars of my life. I have always had no guide, I did not Someone raises me intellectually and spiritually All that I have is from me, and all that I did not get I could have had had it not been for my perversity and lack of self-knowledge The obstacles of life prevented me from reaching.. I want to begin… My bad deeds were not due to my fault in my heart, but because of my infinite feeling Doing good”…
In the mid-seventies, Golestan moved to Britain and had two sons. His son, Kaveh, died in 2003 in Iraq while he was covering the events there with the BBC news team.
