Maxime Feri Farzaneh
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Maxime Feri Farzaneh (born Mostafa Farzaneh; 2 July 1929 – 19 July 2022) was a French-Iranian writer and filmmaker. He signed his books "M.F. Farzaneh" and his films "Feri Farzaneh".
Biography
Farzaneh was born in Tehran, Iran on 2 July 1929.[1] He started to study at the age of 6 in the only boy-and-girl school in Tehran. He went to Tamaddon High School. This particularly cosmopolitan school, nested in the embassies' district of Tehran, would lead him to befriend numerous Russian, Polish, Czech, and Romanian refugees as well as all kinds of Iranians, whether they were Shiites, Assyrians, Jews or Armenians.
The dean, Mr. Salek, had chosen his faculty members without following the recommendations of the Ministry of Education. For instance, the French teacher had come from France, through Algeria to Tehran amidst World War II. Always looking sharp, that gentleman would only speak French. So much so that for the most part, his students did not know he was actually Iranian! The maths teacher was a chemical engineer and the literature teacher, Javad Fazel, was a renowned serial novelist. He was actually the first one to encourage Farzaneh to start writing, publishing one of his poems in a weekly magazine.
When he was about to graduate from
At the age of twenty, Farzaneh decided to write his first novel: Four Aches.
After two years in his law studies, while studying French at the French Institute, he decided to leave
Since his father insisted on it, Farzaneh pursued his law degree, while also enrolling in ethnology studies, as recommended by Hedayat. They met again in Paris. Hedayat committed suicide in April 1951.
Married with a child, he needed to shorten his studies. He went to Toulouse to get his Ph.D., benefiting from a special governmental program for foreign students. He then received a scholarship to attend the Institute of Higher Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC). He eventually decided to stay in France and started a career as a film director and producer.
He first published La Maison d’Exil in 1990, a
In 1996 he published Les Quatre Douleurs, the French version of his novel Four Aches. In the following years, he published other books in Persian, including an
Farzaneh died in Cannes on 19 July 2022 aged 93.[4][a]
Literary works
Fiction
- Les Quatre douleurs, novel, including one chapter corrected by Sadegh Hedayat, 1949–1954. Banned in Iran up to this day. Published in France by Austral, 1996,[5] then by L'insomniaque, 1998.
- L'Eclipse, theater play, 1955.
- Les Dents, a collection of short stories, Paris, 1986. Banned in Iran. The actual Les Dents was published in French in the Europe magazine, Paris, August–September 2014.
- Rencontres avec Sadegh Hedayat,[6] 1988, with Frederic Farzaneh, Jose Corti, Paris, 1993.
- La Maison d’Exil,[7] Phebus, Paris, 1990.
- L'impasse, retracing Morteza Keyvan's life, a brilliant intellectual shot under the Pahlavi regime, 1991.
- Faux et vrais, a collection of short stories, 1993. Banned in Iran. Baran, Stockholm.
- L'Araignee loquace, novel, 1996. Banned in Iran.
- Sadegh Hedayat dans la toile d'Araignee, a biography. Published both in Iran and in Germany, 2004.
- La langue rouge, Op-eds, Baran, Stockholm, 2008.
- L'Araignee loquace, translated into French with Frederic Farzaneh and Sara Saïdi B., foreword by Joel Gayraud, l'Harmattan,[8] Paris, 2014.
Translations
Translations in French
- Les Chants d'Omar Khayam, Sadegh Hedayat, with Jean Malaplate, Jose Corti, Paris, 1993.
- L'Eau de jouvence, with Frederic Farzaneh, both short stories written in French by Sadegh Hedayat, corrected by Joel Gayraud, 1996.
- Madame Alavieh, with Joel Gayraud et Arthur Arrivant, 1977.
Translations in Persian
- Books and short stories by Stephan Zweig, J.-P. Sartre, S. Freud, N. Gogol, Somerset Maugham, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Verlaine and several books from the "Que sais-je" series.
Filmmaking activities
As director
- The Persian Miniatures, 1958, Venice Festival Diploma, 1959.[1]
- Cyrus the Great, 1961, first Iranian film presented at the Cannes film festival.[1][9][10]
- The Woman and the Animal, 1962, laureate at the Locarno film festival.[1][10]
- Parisian,… Parisians, 1963,[10] laureate of the Quality.
- Khark Island, 1966, his only movie made in Iran.
As producer
- CEO of Fargo S.A. (short films), from 1961 to 1969.
- CEO of Mithra Films S.A. (feature films), from 1978 to 1983.
Other activities
- Founder of Iran's first ever movie school in 1966.
- Co-founder of Iran's National TV broadcast, 1966–67.
- Professor at the University of Fine Arts in Tehran, 1968.
- Director and then CEO of Bank Saderat Iran (Paris) for all French-speaking territories, 1969–1980.
- CEO of several REITS, 1969–1980.
See also
Explanatory notes
- ^ 28 Tir in Solar Hijri calendar is 19 July in Gregorian calendar
References
- ^ a b c d International Short Film Festival (accessed 11 December 2015)
- ^ "Livres de France". Éditions professionelles du livre. 22 September 1996 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9781854072559– via Google Books.
- ^ "مصطفی فرزانه، نویسنده و سینماگر دوست صادق هدایت، در فرانسه درگذشت". رادیو فردا (in Persian). Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ Libre Belgique, "Quatre voix en attente", 12 avril 1996.
- ^ Guichard, Louis Ceschino, Thierry. "Le Matricule des Anges : Rencontres avec Sadegh Hedayat – Maxime Féri Farzaneh". www.lmda.net.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Le Monde, Alain Salle: "La maison et le monde" 11 mai 1990.
- ^ "L'ARAIGNÉE LOQUACE, Maxime-Féri Farzaneh – livre, ebook, epub". www.editions-harmattan.fr.
- ^ Festival de Cannes: Feri FARZANEH (accessed 11 December 2015)
- ^ a b c BFI: Feri Farzaneh (accessed 11 December 2015)
External links
Media related to Féri Farzaneh at Wikimedia Commons
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