FILM DIRECTOR

Abbas Kiarostami

1940 - 2016

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Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abbas Kiarostami has received more than 1,670,165 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Abbas Kiarostami is the 60th most popular film director (down from 48th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Iran (down from 53rd in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Film Director.

Abbas Kiarostami is most famous for his films, which are typically slow-paced and contemplative. He often uses long takes, minimal dialogue, and a static camera to create a sense of realism.

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  • 61

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  • 5.71

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  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Abbas Kiarostami has had the most page views in the with 284,263 views, followed by English (208,225), and Turkish (32,494). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Wu Chinese (171.56%), Ido (93.10%), and Albanian (69.59%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Abbas Kiarostami ranks 60 out of 2,041. Before him are Tony Scott, Luc Besson, Paul Verhoeven, Brian De Palma, Aki Kaurismäki, and Werner Herzog. After him are Stephen Hillenburg, Jacques Tati, Claude Chabrol, Sergei Parajanov, Robert Zemeckis, and Éric Rohmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Abbas Kiarostami ranks 31. Before him are Brian De Palma, Martin Sheen, Joachim Gauck, John Hurt, Pina Bausch, and Peter Fonda. After him are Tony Tan, Giorgio Moroder, Kip Thorne, Anna Karina, Raquel Welch, and Burt Young. Among people deceased in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami ranks 23. Before him are Islam Karimov, Cesare Maldini, Carlos Alberto Torres, João Havelange, George Michael, and Prince. After him are Jerome Bruner, Nancy Reagan, Bernardo Provenzano, Gabriele Amorth, Alvin Toffler, and Elie Wiesel.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abbas Kiarostami ranks 66 out of 631. Before him are Moshe Katsav (1945), Cyaxares (-700), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), Masoud Barzani (1946), Cyrus I (-690), and Mohammad Khatami (1943). After him are Ibn Majah (824), Achaemenes (-800), Öljaitü (1280), Shapur II (309), Babak Khorramdin (798), and Bayazid Bastami (804).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Abbas Kiarostami ranks 1. After him are Dariush Mehrjui (1939), Jafar Panahi (1960), Barbet Schroeder (1941), Asghar Farhadi (1972), Shirin Neshat (1957), Majid Majidi (1959), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Ali Hatami (1944), Hossein Shahabi (1967), and Bahman Ghobadi (1969).

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Filmography

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In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
May 18o 20106.952 / 10
Taste of Cherry
Director
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
Sep 28o 19977.638 / 10
Close-Up
Director
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
May 9o 19907.894 / 10