Masoud Kimiai

Biography

Masoud Kimiai or Masud Kimiaei (Persian: مسعود کیمیایی‎‎, born 29 July 1941 in Tehran) is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, Come Stranger, in 1968. With his second film, Qeysar (1969), he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film The Cow, caused a historical change in Iranian film industry. But Dariush Mehrjui's film with more artistic values has sustained its level of greatness through history of Iranian cinema. Qeysar became a great success at the box office and opened the way for young, talented filmmakers who never had a chance in the industry before. His films deal with people at the margin of the society with his anti-hero characters that die at the end. Many directors of commercial films imitated his Kaiser/ Qeysar for about 6 years, but in the last decade he focuses on young antagonists. He usually writes his screenplays, using slang dialogs based on ordinary traditional people’s dialect but some Iranians find those dialogues unrealistic and weird. In 1991, he was awarded a prize in 41st Berlin International Film Festival for his Snake Fang. This was not his sole international prize. At the Cairo…

Directed

1. Qeysar (1969) — Director
2. The Deer (1976) — Director
3. Dash Akol (1971) — Director
4. Reza, the Motorcyclist (1970) — Director
5. Baluch (1972) — Director
6. Domestic Killer (2017) — Director
7. Verdict (2005) — Director
8. The Lead (1989) — Director
9. The Wolf's Trail (1993) — Director
10. Snake's Fang (1990) — Director
11. Ghazal (1976) — Director
12. Trial on the Street (2009) — Director
13. Protest (2001) — Director
14. Mercedes (1998) — Director
15. Friday's Soldiers (2004) — Director
16. The Feast (1996) — Director
17. The Soil (1973) — Director
18. The Sergeant (1992) — Director
19. Metropole (2014) — Director
20. Journey of the Stone (1978) — Director
21. The Boss (2007) — Director
22. Soltan (1997) — Director
23. Crime (2011) — Director
24. The Red Line (1982) — Director
25. The Trade (1996) — Director
26. Oriental Boy (1975) — Director
27. Khoon Shod (2020) — Director
28. Biganeh Biya (1969) — Director
29. The Blade and the Silk (1987) — Director
30. Cry (1999) — Director
31. The Horse (1976) — Director
32. Killing a Traitor (2023) — Director

Also appeared in

1. First Case, Second Case (1979) — Self
2. Dead End (2008) — as Himself
3. A Good Time for Tragedy (2005) — Himself
4. Cahiers du Film (2016) — as himself
5. Mohakate Ghazaleh Alizadeh (2009) — self
6. Pure White (2022) — Self
7. The Last Hero (2017)
8. Fannizadeh — Himself