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Georges Sadoul
Georges Sadoul (4 February 1904 – 13 October 1967) was a French journalist and cinema writer.
Once a surrealist, he became a communist in 1932. He was a journalist of the Lettres Françaises.
He is the author of "l'Histoire générale du cinéma", a comprehensive work on world cinema. He produced an important work on the filmmaker Georges Méliès.
Sadoul was born in Nancy. He was trained at the Sorbonne and the IDHEC, a French cinema school.
He is known
Esmail Koushan
Esmail Koushan "or Kooshan" () (1917-1981) was an Iranian film director who was one of the pioneering figures of Persian cinema. He has been called "the father of the Iranian film industry" by Georges Sadoul.
Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Parsi. He then set up the Mitrafilm company, which produced the first Iranian "talkie" feature film in 1948,