---
name: "Kambiz Roshanravan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kambiz-roshanravan"
fi1m_id: "kambiz-roshanravan"
imdb_id: "nm0742923"
tmdb_id: 1118656
wikidata_id: "Q5963600"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:46:58.737216+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kambiz Roshanravan

## Identity

Kambiz Roshanravan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kambiz-roshanravan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kambiz-roshanravan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0742923
- **TMDB ID:** 1118656
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5963600
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambiz_Roshanravan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5963600, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1118656

Composer. Born 1 January 1949 in Tehran.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1949, Tehran
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambiz_Roshanravan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5963600, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1118656

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Close-Up*](https://film.one/film/close-up.md) (92)

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## Biography

Kambiz Roshanravan is an Iranian composer, conductor and musician. Born in 1949 in Tehran, he trained at the National Conservatory of Music and received a BA from the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Fine Arts. He later earned a master’s degree in music composition from the University of Southern California.

Roshanravan began scoring films in the 1970s with *The Traveler* (1974), directed by Abbas Kiarostami. He composed the music for Kiarostami’s *Close-Up* (1990) and has provided scores for more than one hundred films, television series and animations, working with directors including Amir Naderi and Pouran Derakhshandeh.

Beyond cinema, he has written orchestral, chamber and vocal works, often blending Iranian traditional elements with Western forms. He has taught music for decades and authored texts on harmony and theory.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, kambizroshanravan.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Close-Up* (1990), Fi1m 92, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/close-up.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fight Feast* (2018), Actor
- *My Lady* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *The Magic Ring* (2002), Music Producer
- *A Thousand Women Like Me* (2001), Music
- *Maturity* (2000), Music
- *Shaghayegh* (1992), Music
- *The Legend of a Sigh* (1991), Music
- *Hoor on Fire* (1991), Music
- *Close-Up* (1990), Music — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/close-up.md)
- *Passing Through the Mist* (1990), Music
- *Frosty Roads* (1986), as Songs
- *The Grandfather* (1986), Music
- *Mute Contact* (1986), Music
- *Let Me Live* (1986), Music
- *Swallow, My Tree* (1986), Music
- *Chrysanthemum* (1984), Music
- *Tatooreh* (1984), Music
- *Land of Lovers* (1983), Music
- *The Traveler* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *The emissary*, Music

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