Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
Dimitri Kirsanoff’s Ménilmontant, an avant garde silent movie from 1926.
When I am sad. An animation by Aglaia Mortcheva.
A film by Beate Petersen
In 1842 the 11 year-old heir to the Persian throne, Nasseredin Mirza, received a photographic camera from Queen Victoria of England. In the following decades he documented his life: his many wives, his jesters and clowns, his glorious palaces, and his jewels and treasures. As such he revealed to the public eye, what the public eye never was supposed to see.
Through animated sequences and photos taken by Nasseredin Shah and his court, the film depicts the rivalry and intrigues within the harem, the corruption, the secret murders, the political power struggle, the Shah’s obsession with a beautiful calico cat, as well as Persia’s troubled relation to Europe.
This is the only part of the movie “The Raven” (1976), by Bahram Bayzai that is available. The movie is archived in the National Film Archive of Iran for years, banned to be screened since 1976.