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- Birth nameAbbas Ali Hatami
- Abbas Ali Hatami was born in Tehran, Iran in 1944. He graduated from the College of Dramatic Arts and began his professional career as a writer of short TV screenplays and also as a playwright. Among his plays are: The Demon and the Bald Hassan, Adam and Eve, The Fisherman's Story, City of Oranges, Talisman and Silk. He began his professional film career in 1970 by writing and directing Hassan, the Bald (1970). In the following years, he developed a personal style that was characterized by melodious dialogue, traditional Iranian ambiance created through architecture and set design. His last film, World Champion Takhti, remained unfinished because of his death in 1996 due to cancer.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kaaveh
- SpouseZahra Hatami(October 1971 - December 7, 1996) (his death, 1 child)
- Father of internationally award-winning actress, Leila Hatami.
- One of Iran's most influential directors.
- Was the first director in Iranian cinema to make a musical comedy in his remarkable film Hassan, the Bald (1970).
- His Tombstone in Tehran's Beheshte Zahra Cemetery says in Persian: "Aein Cheragh Khamooshi Nist" (It is not the nature of light to be dark).
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