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Mashhad

Hossein Torabi Spotlight • 16m

مشهد
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1970 • Iran
A documentary about the holy city of Mashhad, highlighting the contrasts of faith and modernity under Shah in the Iran’s early 1970’s. Narrated by late poet Ahmad Shamloo.

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