Birth name
     Mir Mohammad Ali Daryabeigi
Date of birth
     1903
Date of death
     21 March 1991

Mini biography

Ali Daryabeigi _{(1903 - March 21, 1991)}

Ali Daryabeigi (1903 - March 21, 1991) was an Iranian cinema and theater director.

Daryabeigi was the son of Mir Abutaleb Daryabeigi and Talat al-Saltaneh Moazzi. His maternal grandfather was Bahram Mirza Moazoddoleh, one of the princes of Qajar dynasty.

He was a graduate from the German Theater School. His artistic career began with experimental work in the theater. "Alexander and Darius", "Michel Strogoff", "Emir of Al Jazeera", "Ramadan Disaster", "Salome", "Star and Forough" are some of the plays he directed before going to Germany.

"The Storm of Life" and "Domestic Hunt" were his two movies in the Iranian cinema before the 1979 revolution. The Storm of Life, together with the film The Prisoner of Amir (1948) by Esmail Koushan, were among the first films made in Iranian cinema after the period between 1937-1948 caused by World War II.

During a decade, due to the Second World War and the consequences of the occupation of Iran, no film was made. Daryabeigi has not made any film other than the two above mentioned films. The Storm of Life (1948) was screened in cinema Rex in Tehran on 27 April 1948 and became the best-selling movie of the year in Iran with sales of 800,000 rials.

Although The Lor Girl, (also known as Iran of Yesterday and Iran of Today), was the first ever sound film produced in the Persian language, but it was made abroad with Iranian actors. The Storm of Life should then be considered as the first Iranian talkie film that was produced inside the country by Daryabeigi.

Artistic activities

Reza Shah, who had returned from a trip to Turkey in 1934, had the idea of building an opera house. The municipal theater classes headed by Ali Daryabeigi, who had just returned from Germany, would have been held in the place of the unfinished opera building. Daryabigi was in charge of theater education, and Madame Pari Aghababayev was in charge of dance and ballet. A few months after the opening of the theater class, Daryabeigi and his students put on the play "Yahya Nabi" at the opera house. Among other plays staged by Daryabeigi group were Oscar Wilde's Salome and The Party by Anton Chekhov.

In 1946, with the establishment of Barbad society, whose activity was mostly due to the efforts of Esmail Mehrtash, most of the theater and music artists were working in it until 1978. Daryabegi was also actively involved in Barbad society programs.

Activities

Theater

     Alexander and Darius
     Michel Strogoff
     Emir of Al Jazeera
     Ramadan Disaster
     Salome
     Setareh and Forough

the cinema

     The Storm of Life
     Domestic Hunt

Director - Selected filmography

1. Domestic Hunt | Shekare Khanegi (1951)
   
2. The Storm of Life | Toofane zendegi (1948)