Directing

Ebrahim Moradi

Born — Died

1907-02-13 — 1978-10-04

Place of birth

Bandar-e Anzali, Iran

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

IMDb profile

Ebrahim Moradi (Persian: ابراهیم مرادی) (1978 - 1907) was an Iranian screenwriter, director, producer, cinematographer, actor and one of the pioneers of Iranian cinema. Moradi is one of the three or four artists whose names Iranian cinema begins with. In the First Filmmaking Period (1930s), when Iranian cinema was "slow-moving", Moradi was in the ranks of a small but tasteful group of cinema activists. Out of a total of 9 films of this period, two films were made by him: Revenge of the Brother and The Fickle.

Known for

Iranian Cinema from Constitutionalism to Sepanta is a documentary film directed and written by Mohammad Tahaminejad, a contemporary Iranian historian, critic and documentary filmmaker. This film tells the story of the arrival of "film" in Iran and the formation of "cinema" from the constitutional period to the filmmaking of Abdolhossein Spanta in India.

Iranian Cinema: from Constitutionalism to Sepanta

1970

9.0

Two brothers fall for the same girl, though she loves the older brother. Through trickery, the older brother isn't able to reach his beloved and dies of heart brokenness. The younger brother, seemingly happy with this fate, seeks to woo the girl but is faced with the ghost of his older brother.

A Brother's Revenge

1931

A Lost Persian Film. The manager of a large workshop who is in love with "Gohar", the wife of one of his engineers, fails to attract the woman's attention. He throws the engineer in prison with a conspiracy and then smears Gohar himself. When the engineer is released from prison, he finds out about the incident and refuses to continue living with his wife. After a while, the manager, the engineer, and Gohar face each other again. During a fight, the manager injures the engineer and Gohar, but gets himself caught. The engineer, who realizes that she is his wife, goes to her again in this sinful affair and starts a new life together.