Movie Details
Original Language:Persian
Trial
DirectorMoslem Mansouri
45 min
Plot
Our life is a movie You shouldnt be making another one an angry mother shouts but her daughter is out the gate determined to join a group of clandestine actors and filmmakers in a waiting van In the dusty village of Khosro twenty kilometers from Tehran work can be found at the brick kiln but amateur film production gives the locals something to live for Or did until the authorities discovered this community pastime and writerdirector Ali Matini was imprisoned Now all but a few shun the project on pain of arrest But Matini and company dared to make one more film so that the betterknown director Moslem Mansouri once a political prisoner himself could document their art and courage With a donkey for a dolly the crew quips Even Orson Welles cannot work like this But then Welles cant honestly say as Matini does Our life is what Kafka described We are hanging from the gallows of cinema
