Samuel Khachikian
Screenwriter, Film director
1923 – 2001
Who was Samuel Khachikian?
Samuel Khachikian was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenian descent. He was one of the most influential figures in Iran's movie industry and was nicknamed "Iran's Hitchcock".
Born 1923 in Tabriz to a family of Armenian immigrants, Samuel Khachikian published his first poem “The Prison” in the Alik newspaper when he was nine. Five years later, he gave his first stage performance in Tabriz in a play titled “Seville”. He completed his education in History and Journalism, and wrote eight plays which went on stage not only in different cities of Iran, but also in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Greece.
Khachikian made his first film in 1953, titled “The Return”. He was among the first and few directors who used the decoupage technique on the film set, preparing the complete shooting script in advance. The success of his works attracted a lot of attention to the advantages of this filmmaking approach. As an innovative filmmaker, he turned the production of murder mysteries into a popular new wave in the Iranian filmmaking. He made the first ever movie trailer in the history of Iranian cinema for the movie “A Girl from Shiraz” in 1954.
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- Born
- Oct 21, 1923
Tabriz - Also known as
- Samouel Khachikian
- Samuel Khachikian-Fard
- Iran's Hitchcock
- Siblings
- Children
- Nationality
- Armenia
- Iran
- Profession
- Lived in
- Tabriz
- Died
- Oct 22, 2001
Tehran
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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