● Birthplace: Tabriz
● Died: 22 October 2001 in Tehran
Biography
Samuel Khachikian, Armenian: Սամուէլ Խաչիկեան, is one of the most influential directors in the cinema of Iran. As far as he has been nicknamed – Iran’s Hitchcock. He is also named as the master of horror of Iranian cinema. He was born in the city of Tabriz from immigrant and Armenian parents. His father was a arsen of language and literature from Kharbert University in Turkey. He was represented by the Parliament in the First Republic of Armenia. But with the beginning of the October Revolution of Russia, he immigrated to Iran and took over the policy and bought carpets in Tabriz. Samuel was the third child of the family and, in the motivation of a large library in the paternal house and the attachment to music in the family, tends to be an artistic field. In the nine years, the first poem was published by the name of “prison” (Armenian: Բանտ) in Alan (Armenian: Ալիք Օրաթերթ) newspaper. In 1938 solar year, at the age of fourteen, he played at the show Seville in Lion and the sun of the National Garden of Tabriz. Events in Iran in the 1940s, reached the power of the Democratic cult in Tabriz and issued craft – once again, the Khachikian family was forced to migrate and Samuel came to Tehran in the twenty-years. In 1957, after his family was coming to Tehran, along with a group of Aramais, such as the Aghamalian, Aramais Vardani Hovsepian, Yelna Avdisian (Madam Yelna-Ելենա Աւետիսիյան), and Jozeph Vaezian, the theatrical group of the youth of Armenians was in Tehran. The group opened a hall in the Basilica of the Holy Mary Church on Qavam os-Saltaneh North or Mirza Kuchak Khan Current, which was inaugurated by a demonstration of Samuel titled Sarah. His friends and colleagues Samuel Khachikian, he was known by name: Sam Vel. In the beginning of Iran’s cinema, he came to the help of the art and the industry, and showed his technical ability to appeal to the evening in Hell in 1957. And then, with a storm in our town built 1958, he met the Iranian cinema with his SAR style. The criminal light was the friction, which he used for films such as the intersection of incidents (1954), a storm in our city (1958), Midnight Shout (1961), one step to death (1961), the apprehension (1964) and the staggering (1965).
Khachikian can be considered a pioneer in the name of the Iranian cinema, and less Iranian-like director in for three decades of activity (1971-1951) has been involved in a continuous and prolific way of film making. He was among the first Iranian directors to employ technical elements for the cinema and went to the scene with the film head.
As an innovative film, he launched the construction of criminal films in Iran and made the first preview of the history of Iran’s cinema for the girl’s film from Shiraz in 1954. And tens of other technical fields. Many of the renowned actors of Iran’s cinema came to the cinema in Khachikian works. And some of his films, such as The Bump (1964) and The Eagles (1984), were their best-selling work. The most well-known film produced by Khachikian after the revolution was the film of Eagles in years 1984, one of the best sacred Defense Cinema works. In exchange for nearly 50 years of work and effort in the cinema of Iran, he made the 46 film feature and developed many other film director films.
He has a BA in Social sciences, history and archeology and was also contacted by letter with a cinematic school in Pasadena in the United States. His wife was named and only superintendent, Edwin Khachikian, later became an editor. He had two brothers, named Sirak Khachikian, the prominent violin player and Sora (Severn) Khachikian, a cinema sound (1995) and a sister.
Cinema
2001 – The doubt (Unfinished)
1993 – Bluff
1993 – Fifty Days Inflammation
1991 – A Man In The Mirror
1990 – Caduceus
1989 – The 27th Night
1987 – A Hunting
1985 – Cheetah
1984 – Eagles
1983 – Balash
1981 – The Whole of The Ode To Peak (Not shown)
1980 – Shaitan (not shown)
1979 – Blast (not displayed)
1977 – The South Shark
1975 – Anxiety
1974 – Death in the rain
1973 – Jafar Jenny and His Love
1973 – Mistress
1973 – Kiss On Bloody Lips
1971 – A Glass Wall
1970 – Yalda Night Story
1968 – Yell Storm
1968 – White Hell
1968 – Hengameh
1968 – I Also Got Crying
1968 – Mazandaran Tiger
1966 – Bye Tehran
1966 – Never Be Love
1966 – Rebellion
1965 – Staggering
1964 – Bump
1962 – Apprehension
1961 – One Step To Death
1961 – Midnight Cry
1959 – Love Hill
1958 – Taraxacum Paradise
1958 – A Storm In Our Town
1957 – Overnight In Hell
1955 – Blood And Sharaf
1954 – The Accident Crossroads
1954 – Daughter of Shiraz
1953 – Back
Theater
– Seville
– Sara
– Gray or Aisha curtains
– Mongata
– Jewish Girl
– Prosecutors
– Court
– The World trial
– Osh Linney Noosh Linney
Honors And Awards
1954 – The best director in the first festival of films of Iran as Golrizan for film: The Crossroads of Accidents
1958 – Attending the 8th Berlin Film Festival in the year with the film: Overnight in Hell and nominated to receive a Golden Bear
1969 – The first prize winner of the first Tashkent International Film Festival (former Soviet Union) in the Year of film: Tiger of Mazandaran
