Tehran taboo

The Resource Tehran taboo
Label
Tehran taboo
Statement of responsibility
Little Dream Entertainment, Coop99 Filmproduktion, and Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) ; directed by Ali Soozandeh ; screenplay by Grit Kienzlen and Ali Soozandeh ; producers, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Mark Fencer, Frank Geiger, Armin Hofman, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
per
Summary
In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to "restore" her virginity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a prostitute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug addict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. Making use of rotoscope animation, expat Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh creates a portrait of contemporary Tehran that would be impossible by other means.--Back cover
Cataloging source
CANA
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Cinematographer, Martin Gschlacht ; animators, Peter Anlauf, Ilja Burzev, Carlos Cursaro, Weda Farahani, Matthias Wutschke ; edited, Frank Geiger; Andrea Mertens ; music, Ali N. Askin ; costume designer, Erika Navas ; production manager, Bruno Wagner
Dewey number
791.43/72
Language note
Dialogue in Farsi with English subtitles, Closed Captioned
LC call number
PN1997.2
LC item number
.T38852 2018
PerformerNote
Elmira Rafizadeh, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi, Bilal Yasar, Negar Mona Alizadeh, Hasan Ali Mete
Runtime
94
Technique
animation
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