The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood

Mohsen Makhmalbaf made The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood in Iran in 1990 and the film was shown just once before being cut and banned by Iranian censors. Earlier this year, some parts of the original negative were stolen from the archives of the Iranian censorship committee and smuggled to the west, and the copy has been restored by Makhmalbaf himself. The film opened the Venice Classics section of the 2016 Venice Festival.
The film itself is the story of an anthropologist and his daughter and it unfolds during three different periods: before, during and after the revolution.
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