Varuzh Karim-Masihi

Biography

Varuzh Karim-Masihi (Armenian: Վարուժ Քարիմ Մասիհի; Persian: واروژ کریم مسیحی‎, born 1953 in َArak) is an Iranian-Armenian film director, film editor and screenplay writer.

He born in 1952 in Arak, he had his elementary and high school education in his motherland and then moved to Germany to study medicine. There, in the Munich club of Armenians, he met an Armenian actor and changed the course of his life. He developed an interest in cinema and when he returned to Iran in 1971, he was introduced to Bahram Bayzai and assisted him in making The Downpour. He assisted on all of his films up to the Islamic Revolution, as well as other directors like Kamran Shirdel, Amir Naderi, and Bahman Farman...