Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 ? in |
Summary |
This is definitely the best Iranian film I've seen. It collapses fiction and documentary into an absolutely unique, humorous and overwhelmingly moving statement about violent political idealism and its collision with the realities of life and love. In the 70's, the filmmaker was a teenage Islamic militant fighting against the Shah. He stabbed a policeman and was jailed. Years later he became famous director. A man knocked at his front door and said, "I'm the policeman you stabbed. I want to be in one of your films. You owe me." The director said, "Let's make a film about what happened." This film is a reenactment/documentary about the making of that film and it blows me away every time |
Credits |
Directed by Moshen Makhmalbaf |
Notes |
DVD format |
Subject |
Feature films -- Iran -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Author |
Makhmalbaf,Moshen
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New Yorker Video (Firm)
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