Flora Shabaviz with the villagers of Ghalleh Noo-Asgar. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977. A foreign film (Iran). "Made surreptitiously in 1977 just as the Ayatollah Khomeini regime was coming to power, a rough cut of 'The Sealed Soil" was smuggled out of Iran by the director in a false-bottomed suitcase, and taken to the U.S., where che completed her final cut. The film has never been seen in Iran"--Container."
Summary:
Tells the story of a young woman in pre-revolution Iran caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality.
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