Nematollah Gorji
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Nemat'o'llāh Gorji (Persian
:نعمتالله گرجی ) was an Iranian
theatre and film actor. Mr Gorji's last name is suggestive that his ancestors may have been Georgians.
Mr Gorji acted in at least 94 Iranian films, some of which have come to be ranked amongst the most celebrated Iranian films of the 1970s. His last role was that of an old and kind-hearted gardener-caretaker in The Pear Tree (Derakht-e Golābi), 1998, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
:نعمتالله گرجی ) was an Iranian
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
theatre and film actor. Mr Gorji's last name is suggestive that his ancestors may have been Georgians.
Mr Gorji acted in at least 94 Iranian films, some of which have come to be ranked amongst the most celebrated Iranian films of the 1970s. His last role was that of an old and kind-hearted gardener-caretaker in The Pear Tree (Derakht-e Golābi), 1998, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
External links
- Home Page of Film Museum of Iran.
- Photograph of the graveside of Nematollah Gorji at Behesht-e ZahraBehesht-e ZahraBehesht-e Zahra , is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part of metropolitan Tehran, it is connected to the city by a metro line. The cemetery has been one of the inspirations for the popular webcomic, Zahra's Paradise.-History:...
Cemetery, Tehran: http://www.zahirdowleh.com/Gorji-nematollah.jpg. - Derakht-e Golābi (The Pear Tree), IMDb: The Internet Movie Database.
