The Mongols
Genres
Overview
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province. He has already hired Turkmen tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diegetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
92 min
Release Date
1973-10-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Persian
Vote Count
6
Vote Average
7.7
Parviz Kimiavi
Director
Fahimeh Rastkar
Director's Wife
Agha Seyed ali Mirza Sajadi
Edris Chamani
Teimour Bubak
Ali Mirza
Darvish Abbas
Tajik Chamani
Bahman Farmanara
Asad Ilkhani
Khosrow Ilkhani
Mokhay Shadkam
Zaher Shadkam
Joe Small
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