The first wave of persian new wave cinema came about as a reaction to the popular cinema at the time that did not reflect the norms of life for Iranians or the artistic taste of the society. It began in 1969 and then ended with the beginning of the revolution in 1979. The films produced were original, artistic and political.
Masud Asadollahi was a writer and actor, known for Ali Konkouri (1973), Fellow Traveler (1975) and Quarantine (1982). Cinema in homeland began to develop in 1900, when Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was introduced to the cinematograph upon traveling to France. He ordered his chief photographer, Mirza Ibrahim Khan Akasbashi, to buy one.
