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The First Letter

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Abolfazl Jalili | Iran, 2003
Fiction Feature | FF2003

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In the 1970s in the deeply religious town of Saveh, a two hours’ drive from Tehran, 16-year old Emkan (Mehdi Morady) dreams of music, art and literature, but none of these activities is permitted. Ejected from the mosque for sketching, his father burns his books and he is forced to destroy his violin. Then Emkan falls in love with Maassoum (Mina Molania), a Jewish girl from his school, whose parents run a cinema. Her family is forced to leave town during the revolution, and Emkan leaves home to find his true love. A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale by Abolfazl Jalili.

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Abjad

Fiction Feature

Farsi

Offizielles Programm | FF2003


Iran

2003

110 min

OV

Abolfazl Jalili

Abolfazl Jalili

Mehdi Morady, Mina Molania, Abdolreza Akbary

Emmanuel Benbihy

Mehdi Majde Vaziri

Abolfazl Jalili

Mohammad Reza Shajarian

Abolfazl Jalili

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