Sohrab Shahid Saless

Sohrab Shahid Saless was born on Jun 28, 1944 in Iran. Sohrab Shahid Saless's big-screen debut came with Yek Etefagh sadeh directed by Sohrab Shahid Saless in 1973. Sohrab Shahid Saless is known for Roses for Africa directed by Sohrab Shahid Saless, Silvan-Pierre Leirich stars as Paul Walla and Dorothea Rosenberger as Karola Jäger. Sohrab Shahid Saless has got 6 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Sohrab Shahid Saless achieved is TeleStar, Germany. The upcoming new movie Sohrab Shahid Saless plays is Roses for Africa which will be released on Jun 07, 1992.

Sohrab Shaheed Salles was born in Tehran in 1944 to a middle-class family and lived in Tehran. Shahid Saless was a storyteller as a child, with a passion for visualizing his narrations. During his teenage years, he showed an imaginative talent, writing and acting in plays with friends. In 1963, Shahid Saless left Iran for Vienna, where he attended a film school and an acting school at the same time, but his studies were discontinued there in 1967 due to a sudden diagnosis of tuberculosis. In the midst of treatment, he left for Paris to continue his film studies at the prestigious Independent Conservatory of French Cinema, and shortly thereafter, in 1968, he returned to Iran. Upon his return to Tehran, Shahid Saless began work with the Iranian Ministry of Culture as a documentary filmmaker, where he produced multiple short films and documentaries, partly on the topic of traditional dance amongst different Iranian ethnic groups.