Nāsser Taghvāí is an Iran

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ian film director

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 and screenwriter

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Born in Abadan

Abadan

Abadan is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. It lies on Abadan Island , from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border. The civilian population of the city dropped to near zero during the eight-years Iran–Iraq War. In 1992, only 84,774 had returned to live...

, Iran

Iran

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, he graduated from the Faculty of Literature in Tehran University. After early experiences as a storywriter, he began filming documentaries

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 in 1967.. He made his debut, Tranquility in the Presence of Others, in 1970 and gained the attention of Iranian critics. His concern for the ethnography

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 and atmosphere of southern Iran is notable in his films.

Most of his works have been based on novels. Captain Khorshid

Captain Khorshid

Captain Khorshid , is a 1987 Iranian film written and directed by Nasser Taghvai. It is based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, but it moves the setting from Cuba to the south of Iran and the shores of the Persian Gulf, all the events of the film are nationalized.It is...

is an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

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's To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain who lives with a prostitute and runs contraband between Cuba and Florida. The novel depicts Harry as an essentially good man who is forced into blackmarket activity by economic forces beyond his...

, which won the third prize at the 48th Locarno International Film Festival

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 in Switzerland in 1988.

In 1999 he directed a segment of the film Tales of Kish

Tales of Kish

Tales of Kish is a 1999 Iranian drama anthology film. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Hossein Panahi as Shanbeh * Atefeh Razavi as Wife...

, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or

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 at the Cannes Film Festival

1999 Cannes Film Festival

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Filmography

• Tranquility in the Presence of Others, 1973
• Sadeq the Kurdish, 1972
• Curse, 1973
• My Uncle Napoleon
  My Uncle Napoleon
  My Uncle Napoleon is a coming of age novel by Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad published in Tehran in Persian in 1973. The novel was adapted to a highly successful TV series in 1976 directed by Nasser Taghvai...
  
  (TV series), 1976
• Captain Khorshid
  Captain Khorshid
  Captain Khorshid , is a 1987 Iranian film written and directed by Nasser Taghvai. It is based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, but it moves the setting from Cuba to the south of Iran and the shores of the Persian Gulf, all the events of the film are nationalized.It is...
  
  , 1987
• Oh Iran, 1990
• Tales of Kish
  Tales of Kish
  Tales of Kish is a 1999 Iranian drama anthology film. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Hossein Panahi as Shanbeh * Atefeh Razavi as Wife...
  
  ("Greek Ship" episode), 1999
• Unruled Paper
  Unruled Paper (film)
  Unruled Paper is a 2002 Iranian film directed by Nāser Taghvā'i , based on an original script by Nāser Taghvā'i and Minoo Farsh'chi. The film was produced in 2001 by Yektā Film....
  
  , 2001

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