1. Khosrow Sinai was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, composer, poet and scholar.
13 Facts About Khosrow Sinai
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Khosrow Sinai was the first Iranian film director to win an international prize after the 1979 revolution and has been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
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Khosrow Sinai was born on 19 January 1941 in Sari, Mazandaran Province in north of Iran.
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Khosrow Sinai graduated in 1958 from Alborz High School in Tehran, and then went to Austria for further education.
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Khosrow Sinai spent four years studying Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and three years study in music composition at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
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Khosrow Sinai graduated in music education from the Vienna Music Conservatory.
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Khosrow Sinai worked in National Iranian Television as producer, screenplay writer, director, and editor making about 100 short films, documentaries, and features.
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Khosrow Sinai is best known for his Avant-garde documentaries and his unique style in docu-drama.
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Khosrow Sinai has been a juror in several national and foreign film festivals.
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Khosrow Sinai has written and translated numerous essays about cinema and other fine arts.
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Khosrow Sinai married the Hungarian painter, Gizella Varga Khosrow Sinai, and Iranian painter Farah Ossouli.
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Khosrow Sinai's three daughters are artists, and his one son is a scientist.
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On 1 August 2020, Khosrow Sinai died at the age of 79 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.