Kayvan mashayekh biography

          Attorney turned filmmaker, Kayvan Mashayekh, began his career by writing, producing and directing an epic, independent feature film called, "The Keeper: The....

          By Darius Kadivar

          It took 6 years for Iranian American director Kayvan Mashayekh to make his film: "The Keeper : The Legend of Omar Khayyam".

          Attorney turned filmmaker, Kayvan Mashayekh, began his career by writing, producing and directing an epic, independent feature film called, “The Keeper: The.

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          5. The project was daunting and stimulating with the challenge of recreating the life and Times of the Great poet, astronomer and mathematician. Mashayekh scenario required filming in three different locations, the United States, Great Britain and Samarkand in the former Soviet State of Uzbekistan.

          The latter being the exact location of where the Great Omar Khayyam lived and studied in a war ridden Persia divided by religious fundamentalism whose major instigator was Hassan Sabbah leader of the infamous sect the Assassins and political intrigues at the court of the Seljuk prince Malikshah.

          Filmed with an international cast including British Star Vanessa Redgrave, and actor Bruno Lastra as Khayyam, and Christopher Simpson as Hassan Sabbah, the "Keeper" is an Epic as well as a contemporary quest of Khayyam's universal lega