How did you cooperate with Ghaffari in organizing Iran’s Film Club programs?
Ghaffari has a fundamental role in Iranian cinema, as he was the one who founded Film Club in Iran, during the 50’s and arranged for artistic films to be imported from abroad and showed in the film club. In that time importing of films and showing them was not possible because of the censorship regulations and the indifference of the businessmen. On the other hand those films were not found easily in the world. It was mostly due to his efforts that the excitement and tendency towards watching and understanding the art of cinema found a focal point and became popular. There was no other way to quench the thirst for seeing the masterpieces of cinema, but the Film Club that he founded and managed. He promoted this feeling and made it progress. It was because he was Langlois’ assistant in Paris during the years of World War II. Due to his connections with the French and Italian embassy and his connection with the consortium of oil companies, Ghaffari succeeded in having regular screening o
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