A FILM BY: CLAUS STRIGEL
With HOSSEIN MANSOURI, FOROUGH FAROKHZAD, EBRAHIM GOLESTAN, FARZANEH MILLANI, Sholeh Wolpe.
In 1962 the young poetess Forough Farrokhzad visited the lepers at theHossein2 end of the earth to make a film about their world. Her film, "The House is Black", was to become world famous, and, by and by, changed a small world too: the world of a small boy who had the good fortune to meet her. Overnight, the boy is spirited away from the leprosy colony into the midst of pre- revolutionaryTehranian bohemia. Golestan2
A documentary fairy-tale that begins in a north Iranian leprosy colony and winds its way to Munich's Westend: there the Iranian poet in exile,
Hossein Mansouri, goes in search of the boy and discovers a real Millani2oriental fable about his own roots and the magical power of words.
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