22 Facts About Ebrahim Hatamikia

Ebrahim Hatamikia is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and actor.

Ebrahim Hatamikia's films are considered some of the best ever made in the genre of Iranian war cinema and most notable for their attention to social changes brought about by the war.

Ebrahim Hatamikia is among of the filmmakers of the new generation of the cinema of Iran after Iranian Revolution, who is internationally renowned for his role in the cinema of Iran in the 1990s.

Ebrahim Hatamikia was born in 1961 in Tehran to a Persian father and Azeri mother.

Ebrahim Hatamikia's movies are considered to be the best that tackle the war and the issues surrounding it.

Ebrahim Hatamikia's works have often received admiration in national film festivals.

Ebrahim Hatamikia is considered as an icon of professional religious filmmakers in Iran.

The name of Ebrahim Hatamikia was heard for the first time in the short films section of the 3rd Fajr International Film Festival.

Ebrahim Hatamikia's early war-related features The Scout and The Immigrant explored the psychological and sociological impact of the war on the home front.

The situation has reached a point where an important war movie director, Ebrahim Hatamikia publicly criticizes the interference of military personnel in cultural and artistic activities.

Ebrahim Hatamikia talked about this in the press conference for his new film Dead Wave, which has yet to be released despite the fact that it was produced by Ravayat-e Fath Foundation.

Ebrahim Hatamikia was one of the few war filmmakers with a previous background in Super 8 and animated film production who joined Jihad's Television unit and the IRGC's Audiovisual unit in 1986.

Ebrahim Hatamikia uses the war and its extreme situations as a vehicle to negotiate camouflaged taboo topics.

Ebrahim Hatamikia believes none Iranian could escape the mark of war, by virtue of association.

Ebrahim Hatamikia draw on the themes of the Karbala paradigm, specially martyrdom and self-sacrifice, and employs elements of the Ta'ziyeh.

In particular, Ebrahim Hatamikia's melodramas have been the hallmark of war films after Morteza Avini's films of the Sacred Defense.

Ebrahim Hatamikia's films centered on the trauma of war veterans and the destitute lives they have lived in the post-war period, while Avini's films promoted the heroism of soldiers and the necessity of fighting for the Islamic Republic, however both directors have upheld a somber vision of the war hero.

Ebrahim Hatamikia shot From Karkheh to Rhine in Germany, a country in the West.

Ebrahim Hatamikia is one of the most notable members of a group of Iranian filmmakers who experienced the Iran-Iraq War and one of the first Basij filmmakers that took a critical look at post-war Iran by portraying the disillusionment of war veterans and their treatment by both secular society and the government that reneged on its promises.

Ebrahim Hatamikia's ability to translate an American film scenario for an Iranian audience and make it look like the Iran-Iraq war points to the universality of war, is an issue which overlooked by film critics.

However The Glass Agency was dismissed by American critics as nothing more than an attempt to make an Iranian version of Dog Day Afternoon, Ebrahim Hatamikia went on to make other imitations, like The Red Ribbon, which looks a lot like The English Patient.

Ebrahim Hatamikia criticized assassination attempt of the reformist Saeed Hajjarian by writing an open letter to the nation.