# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sohrab-shahid-saless
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:07:14.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sohrab-shahid-saless"
name: "Sohrab Shahid-Saless"
slug: "sohrab-shahid-saless"
description: "Sohrab Shahid-Saless or Sohrab Shaheed Salles was an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century. After 1976 he worked in the cinema of Germany and was an important component of the film diaspora working in the German industry."
tagline: "Filmmaker (1944–1998)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1q6TU6p7f4pGxXul1Nbu2jGjBgJ.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-06-28"
deathDate: "1998-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.99
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.32024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758137/"
    handle:    "nm0758137"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB"
    title: "سهراب شهید ثالث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Shahid_Saless"
    title: "Sohrab Shahid Saless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Shahid-Saless"
    title: "Sohrab Shahid-Saless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Shahid_Sales"
    title: "Sohrab Shahid Sales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Shahid-Saless"
    title: "Sohrab Shahid-Saless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB"
    title: "سهراب شهید ثالث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Shahid_Saless"
    title: "Sohrab Shahid Saless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Shahid_Saless"
    title: "Sohrab Shahid Saless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_%C5%9Eahit_Sales"
    title: "Sohrab Şahit Sales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507555"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1198165"
    title: "Sohrab Shahid Saless"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump