Memorial ceremony of Ezatolah Entezami will be held at Sangelaj Theater Complex

Iran Theater- The memorial ceremony of Ezatollah Entezami will be held on Wednesday 26 of September at Sangelaj Theater Complex. The director of the ceremony is Shokrekhuda Goodarzi, Director of the Ezatolah Entezami Museum. Parviz parastooi,famous Iranian Actor will be the host of the ceremony.

Ezzatollah Entezami, one of the most prominent actors of the Iranian cinema and theater, has passed away at the age of 94.

Born in 1924, he started his theater career in his 20s and later moved to Hanover, Germany, to study theater and cinema in a boarding school. After graduation in 1958, he returned to his homeland and appeared in over 50 feature films, a number of TV series, and dozens of plays.

Entezami was the first-ever Iranian actor to win an international award. In 1971, he received the Chicago International Film Festival’s Silver Hugo for Best Actor for his debut performance in Dariush Mehrjui’s acclaimed movie The Cow.

In this film, he played the role of a naive villager who cannot endure the death of his beloved cow and starts to believe that he is the cow himself.