Cinema program "Manuscripts don't burn" in Kraków
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Runtime: 125 min.
Production: Iran/Niemcy , 2013
Category: drama
Release Date: 27 June 2014
Distribution: Art-House
Directed by: Mohammad Rasoulof
The protagonists of the film are two agents of the security services lower level - Khosrow and Morteza. The first is an exemplary husband and father, whose complicated life situation forced to perform morally questionable work. Khosrow measured because of the dilemma of whether his child, suffering from a complicated condition, not ill as a result of the penalty, which Allah has sent down to him from killing people for the glory of the motherland. Morteza, in turn, is a typical apparatchik, a man without qualities, acting according to the principle: as a citizen of the State, as a citizen of the state. It is against these two is to carry out a covert operation, which depends discrediting high-ranking people in the country.
Agents are supposed to find two copies of the title of the manuscript. Its author is Kasra, Age writer, has been denied the right to grant a passport. The man took the time to write down memories of a trip to the Congress of Writers of Armenia, which set off a government bus in the company of twenty other writers. Coming across a range of mountains in Tehran, the driver suddenly jumped out of the vehicle, leaving the passengers to die. As a result of an unforeseen turn of events, but the bus did not fall into the abyss.