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    "title": "A Wanderer of the World—Lost and Rediscovered\n<!--EndFragment-->",
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    "abstract": "<p>This article presents the life of Iranian screenwriter and director Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-1998) and his transnational film work, which was created as a result of multiple exiles, i.e., in Iran, the Federal Republic of Germany and the former Czechoslovakia. Saless is an important auteur filmmaker, who was part of and a driving force behind the Iranian New Wave in the first half of the 1970s. After his exile to West Berlin in 1974, he, who spoke Persian, German, English, French, and later Slovak, became part of the New German Cinema and was able to make a total of 13 feature films and documentaries between 1975 and 1991. Despite numerous national and international awards and his admission to the Academy of Arts in West Berlin, Saless retained his position as an outsider in the West German film and television landscape.</p>\n<p>This article is based on the three-part monograph Die langen Ferien des Sohrab Shahid Saless. Annäherungen an ein Leben und Werk (The Long Vacation of Sohrab Shahid Saless: Approaches to a Life and Work), published in German in 2023 by Iranian-born Germanist Behrang Samsami. His publication is part of a rediscovery and reappraisal of the “great unknown of New German Cinema” that has been underway since 2016. This process is multifaceted: not only are Saless’ films being restored and digitized, making them accessible to an interested audience, but retrospectives and conferences are also being held. Finally, a series of books is also being published. This article also discusses this positive development, which is taking place not only in Germany, but also in English-speaking countries and Iran.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Ron Holloway"
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        {
            "word": "Iranian New Wave"
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            "word": "Exile"
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            "word": "New German Cinema"
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            "word": "Transnational film"
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            "word": "Lotte H. Eisner"
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            "word": "Sohrab Shahid Saless"
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            "word": "Anton Chekhov"
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            "word": "Hajir Darioush"
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    "section": "Essays",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-08-29T02:02:45.397000-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2026-03-23T17:55:27.224331-07:00",
    "date_published": "2026-05-01T14:00:00-07:00",
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