Siyavosh at Persepolis

Siyavosh at Persepolis tells the story of the Crown Prince of Iran Siyavosh who after a fallingout with his father leaves Iran and settles in Turan There he marries the daughter of King Afrasyab and is killed in a plot by the kings scheming and jealous son The film combines this ancient story with documentarystyle scenes of foreign tourists visiting the ruins of Persepolis in the present creating a work in which past future present legend theater and a myriad of filmic forms are combined in a dense intertextuality