Before DiCaprio with his blond hair and blue eyes charmed Rose Bockeater and the world on the deck of the Titanic, or the stylish George Clooney and the photogenic Brad Pitt, he entered the world’s famous list.
Since that day, the people of the world consider him “the most attractive man in cinema” and his reputation has entered the public literature of us Iranians as a symbol of a “beautiful gentleman”.
His story is also worth listening to!
From the age of four, you taste the taste of an orphan and then a bully butcher stepfather, you get kicked out of school and you prefer the harsh atmosphere of the army to home, then you are taken to war and survive.
Then become a restaurant waiter until one time you want to play the role of the rich, pay all your savings and rent a dress to go to the Cannes Film Festival, maybe you can wander around the glamorous party of movie stars and the flash of cameras Watch their excitement and regret closely.
All of a sudden, Huma Saadat will sit on your shoulder and all the heads will turn towards you and the hearts of the famous people will be happy for you, what a beautiful face! And let one happy night be an exception for you, a thousand nights; And you will become a legend of beauty in the history of cinema.
This story does not belong to a personage in Victor Hugo’s stories. It’s a real-life snapshot of a man who, until recently, was counting money somewhere in spectacular Switzerland.
He is none other than Alain Delon; The man whom Vivien Leigh, who won two Oscars in the roles of Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche Dubois for Gone With the Wind and A Bus Called Lust, for all her reputation as a beauty, never agreed to act opposite her. He said: I can’t play against a man who is more attractive than me.
“Alain Delon”, who was called a beautiful devil in an angel’s shirt by Larousse’s film encyclopedia.
But this global name and face had an added flavor and privilege for us Iranians; Khosrow Khosrowshahi’s graceful and distinctive dubbing voice for his roles sat so much on this face that he found thousands of imitators in the streets and alleys.
Apparently, Alan Dolan heard a part of this dubbing during his trip to Tehran and told Hamid Ghanbari, the dubbing manager, “My best dubbing in the world is an Iranian”.
Alain Delon had another occasion with Iran; Acting in a movie called “Tehran 43” which was made in 1981 under his own production with the participation of the former Soviet Union, France, Switzerland and Spain.
The subject of the film was inspired by the secret and confidential conference of the heads of the three powers of the allied front, namely Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in December 1322 in Tehran, and the film had a brief overview of the espionage and counter-espionage plans of the countries involved in the two fronts of World War II.
Apparently, Alan had a great desire to make this film in Tehran. In one of the Tehran newspapers of that time, there are some photos of Alain Delon in front of the stairs of the Iran Air plane and other photos of the reception of Behrouz Voshouqi and Irene and some of the actors of the time, an article with the title “Alain Delon’s invitation to Behrouz Voshoqi” appears with this description that “Behrooz Vathouki, who went to Turkey to meet her fiance Puri Banai to make the final decision of their life together, was invited to Paris by Alain Delon, who came to Tehran last year to participate in the French Film Week, to meet with the director of Qaiser after At the end of the Berlin Film Festival, travel to Paris to see him and France.”
But it did not happen. Because with the occurrence of the Islamic revolution in 1957 and the change of conditions, the locations related to Tehran in the current country of Azerbaijan, which is a part of the former Soviet Union, were reconstructed and filmed.
Perhaps his life had many ups and downs, as much as the melodrama of winning honors such as the Legion badge, bear statues and golden palms of the most important festivals, to the tragedy of his suicide accusation in the form of euthanasia in 2022.
Ups and downs as big as the two ends of his life, one end of which returned to the pits of the poor childhood neighborhood in the small village of “Su” and the other end of it in the starry sky of the “Duchatelet” opera hall in Paris and receiving the César award.
The game of fate of someone who until his death, many people in our country followed his news and still like love in its classic and familiar way, with a mixture of Khosrowshahi’s voice and Alain Delon’s face.
Cinematographer and media expert