Roberto Rosselini & my wife Gisela
Shirley Mac Laine, F. Hoveyda right
with Robert de Niro
Dancer choreographer Martha Graham
and of course, Paul Newman
Cinema and Publicity, a way to improve relations
In 1952, I took a leave of absence from the Ministry of foreign affairs and joined the
Department of Mass Communications of Unesco. In 1953, I met André Bazin and François
Truffaut, his protégé. They offered me to write in les “Cahiers du Cinema”. At
the same time the monthly “Fiction” gave me a column on cinema. I worked from
1954 to 1960 with Roberto Rossellini on several project. In 1957 I co-wrote with him the
script for INDIA, a feature film which was screened in 1959.In 1962 I published my first
novel: "Les Quarantaines" which was widely reviewed in France. I was thus
involved in the realms of cinema and literature, where I made many friends. When I became
ambassador to the United Nations, I met many artists and intellectuals in New York. All
these fine friends used to come and see me at the Embassy, that allowed me to introduce
them to Iranian culture, which after all was part of my official job! So don't mind them
in the show below...
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