Iran : une revolution cinematographique / ARTE France et Avenue B Productions présentent ; avec la collaboration de Nicolas Bertrand ; une film de Nader T. Homayoun.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Homayoun, Nader T., director.

Bertrand, Nicolas, producer.

Bayz̤āʼī, Bahrām, associated name.

Ghafari, Farokh, 1921-2006, associated name.

Makhmalbāf, Muḥsin, associated name.

Nādirī, Amīr, associated name.

Bihishtī, Muḥammad, 1951 or 1952- associated name.

Ḥātamīʹkiyā, Ibrāhīm, 1961- associated name.

Banī Iʻtimād, Rakhshān, 1954- associated name.

Panahi, Jafar, associated name.

Ghobadi, Bahman, associated name.

Jullen, Christophe, composer.

ARTE France, producer.

Avenue B Productions (Firm), producer.

First Run/Icarus Films, distributor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Iran--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures in propaganda.

Motion pictures--Censorship.

Motion picture industry.

History.

Iran.

Motion picture industry--Iran--History.

Motion pictures--Censorship--Iran.

Motion pictures in propaganda--Iran.

Motion picture producers and directors--Iran--Interviews.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Interviews.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Une revolution cinematographique

Title on disc label and container: Iran : a cinematographic revolution

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 2006.

Language Note:

Narration in English, interviews & film clips in Farsi with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Traces the development of the Iranian film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country's tumultuous political history, chronicling how Iranian films reflected contemporaneous society and often presaged social change. It shows how mainstream commercial cinema served as a propaganda tool for both the monarchy and the fundamentalist religious regime, recounts the sporadic efforts of some filmmakers to reveal grimmer social realties, and the struggles against censorship and traditional cinematic formulas by such pioneers as Bahram Beyzai and Sohrab Shahid Saless and pre- and post-Islamic revolutionary 'new wave' filmmakers.

Participant:

Interviewees: Bahram Beyzai, Farrokh Gaffary, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Amir Naderi, Mohammad Beheshti, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi.

Credits:

Music, Christophe Jullen.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

OCLC:

173217580