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The house is black = Khaneh siah ast

Call Number

  • DVD 614.546 H8422 (CEN)

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Languages

In Farsi, with English subtitles.

Publication Information

Chicago, IL : Facets Video, [2005]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (22 minutes) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A revelation of staggering force, lyrically composed by one of the 20th century's leading poets, Forough Farrokhzad. Her first and only film, it depicts the lives and bodies of people tragically deformed by leprosy. A film of stirring and powerful images, and a beautifully, tragically poetic narration that heavily influenced the modern Iranian cinema of Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf. It provides, in the film's own words, "a vision of pain no caring human being should ignore."

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced in 1962.

Special features: "The school that was blown away" and "Images from the Qajar Dynasty," two short films by Mohsen Makhmalbaf ; interview with Forough Farrokhzad's sister, Pooran.

Contents

  • house is black school that was blown away

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