TEHRAN -- Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Seta’s journey to Iran has been canceled due to an illness. De Seta, who is mostly known for his documentaries, was scheduled to travel to Iran in late September.

De Seta was to travel to Iran at the invitation of Iranian documentarian Kamran Shirdel, a former student of his, and the Italian Embassy in Tehran, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Wednesday.
Several programs, including the screening of several of his documentaries at Tehran’s Mellat Cinema Complex, arranged for the documentarian during his week-long stay (September 29 to October 6) have been canceled.
De Seta, 87, is considered one of the Italian cinema’s greatest imaginative realists of the sixties.
His debut film “Bandits of Orgosolo” was made following his ten short documentaries.
The 10th Tribeca Film Festival paid homage to De Seta and screened the feature-length film at the event in last April and May.
His early documentaries highlight the daily lives of Sicily’s poorest workers, and are notable for their lack of voice-over narration, quiet mood and extraordinary color.
He has received many accolades at international events.