Nosrat karimi biography of alberta
Karimi, Nosrat, ed..
Nosrat Karimi
Nosrat Karimi (22 December 1924 – 3 December 2019) was an Iranian actor, screenwriter, make-up artist, voice actor, puppeteer and director who is responsible for many ‘firsts’ in Iranian cinema.
He made the first stop-motion film, first puppet-film and founded the first animation studio.
See Nosrat Karimi, ed.,.
Also the first filmmaker in the world to be sentenced to have his hands cut for making a film. A filmmaker whose service to the art and culture industry in ten years was as much if not more than thousands of government officials, and somehow spent the next 41 years of his life isolated in his house.
Before returning to Iran in 1965, Nosrat Karimi had spent 5 years in Prague studying film and television directing.
A principal reason behind Karimi’s decision in moving to Prague was puppeteering as Czechoslovakia was a pillar for puppet theater. He graduated from university with a 3-minute stop-motion animation titled “Life Insurance” in 1959 and introduced himself as one of the first I