Filmfarsi

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Filmfarsi

2019

1h 24m

2.0(1 votes)

Documentary

Overview

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

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13 members

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Naser Malek Motiee

(archive footage)

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Mohamad Ali Fardin

(archive footage)

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Behrouz Vossoughi

(archive footage)

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Ehsan Khoshbakht

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Pouri Banaei

(archive footage)

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Amir Houshang Kavousi

Himself

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Irene Zazians

(archive footage)

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Googoosh

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Reza Beyk Imanverdi

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Forouzan

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Iraj Ghaderi

(archive footage)

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سعید راد

(archive footage)

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Manoochehr Vossoogh

(archive footage)

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