Shahla Riahi (Persian: شهلا ریاحیŠahlâ Riyâhi, 10 September 1926[2] – 31 December 2019)[3] was an Iranian actress and film director.
Born in Tehran, she started stage acting in 1944 and first appeared in cinema in Golden Dreams. In 1956 she became the first Iranian woman to direct a feature, with Marjan.[4] Her career as a film actress includes more than 72 features.[5][6][7]
Riahi died on 31 December 2019 at the age of 93.[8]
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Mohammad Ali Issari - 1989
That same year, the first Persian feature film in the history of Iranian cinema was produced and directed by a Persian woman. The film was Marjan (proper name), a 35mm, black-and-white film about 110 minutes long, produced and directed by Shahla, a well-known actress and singer. Marjan was the first production of Arya Film, established by Shahla the same year. The story, written for the screen by Mohammad Asemi, is about a tribe of gypsies that settles down near a village.
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Hamid Naficy - 2011
Shahla also relates that when her movie, Marjan, did not do well, the producer forced her to cut in Mahvash's song‐and‐dance clips to spice it up and to change its depressing ending so as to bring in spec‐tators.
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Hamid Dabashi - 2012 -
Could spell the word “stone” on the blackboard, And the sparrows flew away from the top of the old tree.5 The earliest record of an Iranian woman filmmaker looking through a camera dates back to the mid-1950s. Historians of Iranian cinema consider Shahla Riyahi's Marjan (1956) as the first occasion when a woman was identified as a filmmaker. Shahla Riyahi was already a popular actress of stage and screen by the time she made Marjan, but masculinist historiography has twice ...
