Forugh Farrokhzad

Director | Writer | Actress

Date of birth : 01/05/1935

Date of death : 02/13/1967

City of birth : Tehran, Iran

Farugh Farrokhzad was primarily a poet. Indeed, she is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century in Iran, which has a millennium of poetic tradition behind it. Although she only made one film, the 22 minute so-called documentary "The House is Black", this work is generally seen as the crucial precursor of the Iranian New Wave.