Born in 1896, Ovanes Ohanian was a filmmaker, inventor, doctor and scientist with a PhD in medicine, film, science and languages. He established the first film school in the history of Iran. His first film, Abi and Rabi (1930), was Iran's first feature-length movie. Ohanian studied film at the Cinema Akademi Of Moscow. After the failure of his second film, Ohanian could not find any support for further activities. He left Iran for India and continued his academic career in Calcutta. Subsequently
... he returned to Iran in 1947, where he died seven years later.Ovanes Ohanian has been a Director in some movies:
Haji Agha, The Movie Actor is about that The film reflects the clash between tradition and modernity in Iranian society in the early 1930s. A director (Ovanes Ohanians) looks for a subject for his movie and someone suggests that he films Haji Agha secretly. Haji is very rich and frowns upon cinema. Haji's daughter, son-in-law, and servant help the director with the film as well. Haji's watch gets lost, and he suspects his servant. Haji and his son-in-law start chasing him. At first, they tail him to the dentist's, and then they meet a fakir who claims he can find the lost watch. He does some strange things. The director photographs Haji all the time. Then Haji watches the film and becomes aware of the true merits of cinema. In this film Ovanes Ohanian collaborates with Habibollah Morad, Moghadaszadeh Foroozin -, Asia Ghostanian, Zema Ohanian, Abbas Gholi Edalatpour, Gholamali Sohrabifar -, Paolo Potomkin, Ebrahim Moradi.
Abi and Rabi is about that Pedram Aram is a lawyer who has been separated from his wife due to her wish for living abroad and now lives with his daughter Takta... He is very sloppy and absent-minded and always confused Monday and Tuesday. However, he also has some qualities that make him lovable. He is very kind and honest and has a great relationship with children, especially his daughter Takta. He also has a trick of throwing balls to hit the target by bouncing off several spots... Her daughter Takta loves dolls, and she has a huge collection of dolls ranging from expensive ones her mother sends her to cheap third-class ones her father wins at amusement parks. One day, they meet their neighbors Golshid Zamani and her son Mani. Golshid lost her husband in an accident many years ago and has decided to move to Germany with her son... Pedram has become interested in her but he cannot express his feelings as he is too shy! But Takta and Mani have become good friends and it seems that things are about to fall in place when a suitor approaches Golshid. Based on some rumors, the suitor believes she possesses a treasure... When all his tries fail, he kidnaps Takta and Mani to make Golshid give up the treasure... Pedram and Golshid find the kids in an apple warehouse, and Pedram manages to knock out the kidnappers using the apples and his trick throws. Everything returns to normal. Today is Tuesday, but as always, Pedram believes it's Monday and he is running out of time as Golshid and Mani have a flight to Germany. He is being pushed by the children to propose to Golshid and prevent them from leaving but his shyness is still in the way. In the end, he gathers the courage to propose and thus prevent them from leaving. In this film Ovanes Ohanian collaborates with Mohammad Ali Zarrabi, Gholamali Sohrabifar -, Mohammad Ali Ghotbi, Khan Baba Khan Motazedi, Sako Lidzeh.
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