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Mehdi Missaghieh
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Mehdi Missaghieh

Iranian film producer and director

Mehdi Missaghieh (مهدی میثاقیه; 1927–1991) was an Iranian film producer and director active primarily before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He is most widely recognized for his work as a producer, overseeing a wide range of commercial and socially significant films in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Deer (1974), The Soil (1973), and Sadegh the Kurd (1972).2

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Born 1927, died 1991.1

About

He co-founded the Kārūn Film Studio in 1952 and later established the Missaghieh Studio in Tehran in 1959, which became one of the country’s leading production facilities. His work is credited with modernizing set design, music integration, and production management for Iranian cinema of the period.

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, multiple sources report that Missaghieh was imprisoned because of his Bahá’í faith, and that state authorities confiscated his studio and assets. The Missaghieh Studio premises were later incorporated into the Farabi Cinema Foundation.

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Career

Occupation: screenwriter, film director, film producer.4

Mehdi Misaghieh (1927—1991) was an Iranian movie producer, actor, and studio owner. He began working as an actor in the early 1950s. In 1952 he joined peers to establish the Karun Film Studio, and in 1959 he opened Studio Misaghieh in Tehran, which became one of the most active facilities for feature production in the 1960s and 1970s. Film historian Kaveh Askari notes his prominence among mid-century producers and situates him in competition with contemporaries such as Samuel Khachikian.

At Studio Misaghieh he produced some of the most iconic movies of pre-revolutionary Iran. His groundbreaking advancements in scene design, new techniques in filmmaking, and revolutionary use of music and sound were incredibly innovative. These developments notably enhanced the quality of fictional film production, enabling Iranian films to compete with foreign films at the box office. At thirty, he independently produced the movie A Party in Hell, which was a huge success at the box office in 1957 and was nominated for a Golden Bear at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival in 1958. Misaghieh passed away in exile, yet several screenplays originally planned for production by his studio were later approved and screened by the Islamic Republic.

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Personal life

  • Born1927, Tehran5
  • CitizenshipIran6

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