Biography: Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar was born in Paris in 1938. He studied cinema in France and the United States. He worked for Fox in London for more than year as a script reader. He then went to Iran to work in the Ministry of Art & Culture as a filmmaker. His first documentary was Tehran Today, but it was his second one, the more complex Dawn of the Capricorn, told from the point of a view of a restless young boy, that gained him significant recognition. He died in Paris in 1998.