Direction: Sohrab Shahid Saless
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sohrab Shahid Saless. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
A Simple Event
1973 · Movie · 82 min. · Iran
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Hibibollah Safarian · Mohammed Zamani · Anne Mohammad Tarikhi · Hedayatullah Navid
Plot A few days in the life of a young boy living by the Caspian Sea. At school he is falling behind his classmates and almost expelled. He helps his father...
7.4
24 votes
7.4
24 votes
Still Life
1974 · Movie · 93 min. · Iran
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Zadour Bonyadi · Mohammed Kani · Habib Safaryan · Zahra Yazdani
Plot It clearly shows the spare life of a railroad-station manager, in a remote area, who lives in a single room with his rug-weaving wife. His retirement, when he learns of...
7.3
66 votes
7.3
66 votes
Black and White (S)
1972 · Movie · 4 min. · Iran
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Jafar Zehni · Habibollah Akbariani · Mohammad Reza Zehni
Plot Short film made with stop motion animation techniques.
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Wechselbalg (TV)
1987 · Movie · 134 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Katharina Bacarelli · Friederike Brüheim · Henning Gissel · Helga Jeske
Plot Based on the book by Jürgen Breest, the movie directed by Saless describes the trouble of a young couple after they accommodated a foster child. Self doubt and jealousy affect...
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Addressee Unknown
1983 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Manfred Zapatka · Iris von Reppert-Bismarck · Umran Ertok · Dieter Schaad
Plot A husband and wife have separated and while in that semi-marital state, the wife begins an affair with a Turkish architect. In the meantime, the once revolutionary-minded husband now prefers...
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Order
1980 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Heinz Lieven · Dorothea Moritz · Ingrid Domann · Peter Schütze
Plot This off-beat psychological drama by Sohrab Shahid Saless dissects German post-war society with a cutting edge. Herbert (Heinz Lieven) is a solid, middle-class engineer who one day quits his job...
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Roses for Africa
1992 · Movie · 183 min. · Germany
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Silvan-Pierre Leirich · Dorothea Rosenberger · Jan Biczycki · Enzi Fuchs
Plot 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...
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The Coming of Age (Time of Maturing) (TV)
1976 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Mike Henning · Eva Manhardt · Eva Lissa · Charles Hans Vogt
Plot The everyday life of a boy coming of age, living with his prostitute mother, saving money, dreaming of a bicycle.
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Utopia
1983 · Movie · 198 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Manfred Zapatka · Imke Barnstedt · Gundula Petrovska · Gabriele Fischer
Plot A brutal misogynist who runs a bordello with an iron hand has a few problems of his own: head pains of unknown origins, and some threatening associates. His punishment of...
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Far from Home
1975 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Parviz Sayyad · Cihan Anasai · Muhammet Temizkan · Hüsamettin Kaya
Plot This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish “guest workers” living in Germany. These workers live lives of great hardship, loneliness and deprivation in order to send money back to...
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The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
1979 · Documentary · 60 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Lotte Eisner · Gene Moskowitz · Howard Vernon · David Overbey
Plot Historian, author, and movie critic Lotte H. Eisner is the subject of this documentary. She recalls her early childhood in Germany and her association with such legendary directors as F.W....
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Hans - Ein Junge in Deutschland (TV)
1985 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless
Cast Martin Pasko · Imke Barnstedt · Yane Bittlova · Ulrich von Bock
Plot Frankfurt 1944: Afraid to be denounced as a half Jew, hans the illegitimated son of a worker had to leave the city. After Germany surrendered he decides to go back...
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