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Ahmad Faruqi Qajar

Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar was born in Paris in 1938. He studied cinema in France and the United States. He worked for Fox in London for more than year as a script reader. He then went to Iran to work in the Ministry of Art & Culture as a filmmaker. His first documentary was Tehran Today, but it was his second one, the more complex Dawn of the Capricorn, told from the point of a view of a restless youn…

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Dawn of the CapricornDawn of the Capricorn · 1964
Dawn of the Capricorn
★ 6.01964
Movie
Dawn of the Capricorn, made by Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar (Qajar) in 1964, is a strange composition that looks at the stagnated situation of a country suspended between the old world and the modern era. Nevertheless, while its aim is clear, the message is vague and up to interpretation. Wherever it casts its eye, Faroughi’s camera tries to register this somehow cynical dichotomy. It begins in a theater house in the old city of Isfahan that has staged Shakespeare’s Othello. There is no attentive audience and the players are detached and exhausted. A young man from amongst the audience begins a long journey into the web of narrow alleys of Isfahan and ends up in the main mosque of the city where he meets a young girl. Despite the initial chaotic situations, from its halfway point, the film begins to render a silent observation of a night that will end at the break of dawn.
Horizon of 43Horizon of 43 · 1964
Horizon of 43
1964
Movie
A short documentary that inspects the effects of 1963 Land Reform Laws in Iran by Mohammad Reza Shah.
Master Abolhasan SabaMaster Abolhasan Saba · 1970
Master Abolhasan Saba
1970
Movie
A documentary about Abolhasan Saba, who was an Iranian musician, composer.
Tehran TodayTehran Today · 1962
Tehran Today
1962
MovieDocumentary
A short documentary about Tehran that mainly focuses on the industrialization, modernization and Westernization of the city in the 1960s
The Eye That HearsThe Eye That Hears · 1967
The Eye That Hears
1967
MovieDocumentary
A night with Bahman Mohasses famous Iranian Painter

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Dawn of the CapricornDawn of the Capricorn · 1964
Dawn of the Capricorn
★ 6.01964
Movie
Dawn of the Capricorn, made by Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar (Qajar) in 1964, is a strange composition that looks at the stagnated situation of a country suspended between the old world and the modern era. Nevertheless, while its aim is clear, the message is vague and up to interpretation. Wherever it casts its eye, Faroughi’s camera tries to register this somehow cynical dichotomy. It begins in a theater house in the old city of Isfahan that has staged Shakespeare’s Othello. There is no attentive audience and the players are detached and exhausted. A young man from amongst the audience begins a long journey into the web of narrow alleys of Isfahan and ends up in the main mosque of the city where he meets a young girl. Despite the initial chaotic situations, from its halfway point, the film begins to render a silent observation of a night that will end at the break of dawn.

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