Sohrab Shahid Saless — Director (12)

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Roses for Africa (1992)
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Sohrab Shahid Saless actor: Silvan-Pierre Leirich / Dorothea Rosenberger
other title: Rosen für Afrika
A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years . Soon the relationship fails due to the aggressive, also destructive tendencies of the man who enters a deep personal crisis. When the marriage coined/shaped of force and Psychoterror goes finally into the breaks, the man looks for comfort in the alcohol and becomes criminal.

Movie

Order (1980)
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苏赫拉布·沙希德·萨利斯 actor: 海因茨·利文 / 多萝蒂娅·莫黑茨 …
other title: 顺序 / All in Order …
Iranian director Saless’ radical style was unique in the West German cinema of the 70s and 80s. His black-and-white film dissects the disturbed state of an unemployed construction engineer entirely at odds with social norms. 源自:

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Diary of a Man in Love (1977)
Tagebuch eines Liebenden Douban
other title: Tagebuch eines Liebenden / 恋人日记
The movie is a diary of a lonely 30 year old man who works as a butcher in a supermarket. The movie shows his daily life between the supermarket and his flat. His ability to communicate is limited. From time to time his mother visits him. But his relationship to her is rather reserved. Constantly he’s waiting for his girlfriend which is not visiting him anymore after they had a fight.

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Far from Home (1974)
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other title: 远离家园 / Dar Ghorbat …
As in his earlier films, this uncompromising Iranian director works through repetition, his style so unemphatic that the slightest modulation (the same action seen from different perspectives, for instance) carries a charge. Saless' camera simply fastens, in long, uninflected takes, on the daily rountine of a Turkish worker in Berlin, a Gastarbeiter like any other. We see him at his job, a dedicated prisoner to his monotonous machine; travelling home on the underground, where only a drunk will talk to him; walking home to the shabby room he shares with other Turkish workers, and where he ocasionally writes letters home and regularly counts his money. The determined austerity has an almost mesmeric effect; and seems almost too calculated until one begins to feel the enervating isolation of these mortgaged lives. For all that the foregin worker tries to engage with his adopted city (and he does try, inarticulately but with an innocent single-mindedness), he might just as well have come from another planet." David Wilson, "Sighe and Sound"