Name Hamid Samandarian Role Film director | Spouse Homa Rousta (m. ?–2012) Children Kaveh Samandarian | |
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Born May 6, 1931 ( 1931-05-06 ) Tehran, Persia Occupation Film director, Theatre director, Screenwriter, Playwright, Translator Died July 12, 2012, Tehran, Iran Movies All the Temptations of the Earth Similar People Homa Rousta, Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat, Ruhollah Khomeini | ||
Hamid samandarian memorial by ojan haghighi setareh eskandari
Hamid Samandarian Persian: حمید سمندریان; May 6, 1931 – July 12, 2012) was an Iranian film and theater director and translator. He staged numerous dramas during his lifetime, including No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Marriage of Mr. Mississippi by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
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- Hamid samandarian memorial by ojan haghighi setareh eskandari
- Hamid samandarian body escorted to cemetery by artists and supporters
- Teaching
- Theater
- Cinema
- Written Works
- References
Having established many acting and directing classes and workshops, Samandarian trained a lot of Iranian talents as actors and directors including; Ezzatolah Entezami, Reza Kianian, Golab Adineh, Mehdi Hashemi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Ahmad Aghalou, etc. He married Homa Rousta, an Iranian film and theater actress.
Hamid samandarian body escorted to cemetery by artists and supporters
Teaching
Danial Hakimi was one of his notable students.
Theater
He translated and then staged many famous plays written by famous playwrights during his lifetime such as Friedrich Durrenmatt, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Miller, Max Frisch, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Henrik Ibsen.
His translation of Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo was published in 2014, two years after his death.
Cinema
He directed one film, All the Temptations of the Earth in 1989.
Written Works
Many of his translations are published to Persian readership. Other than translations, some interviews with Samandarian are published. One book-length instance is in sahne khaneye man ast ("This Stage is my House"). He is also one of the directors whose talks are included in Ahmad Kamyabi Mask's important Qu'a-t-on fait de Rhinocéros d'Eugène Ionesco à travers le monde?: Allemagne, France, Roumanie, Iran, Japon, U.S.A..