Through the Olive Trees

Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Zir-e darakhtan-e zeyton
Date: January 01, 1994 to December 31, 1994
Dates Note: 1994
Country of Origin: Iran
Place of Origin: Iran
Languages: Farsi
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Curator Notes

Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Cinema Mon Amour: Mark Morris
Description: 

Through the Olive Trees is about a film crew from Tehran shooting in an earthquake-ravaged village using the local inhabitants as actors. But life goes on, bringing the show to a stop. It seems Hossein, the actor chosen to portray a young bridegroom, is smitten with his onscreen bride. Earthquake or no, through graveyard and forest glade, he has asked her to be his wife but she ignores him. Hossein is the hardest-working actor-philosopher in showbiz, and much of the humor and wry pathos of Through the Olive Trees is at his expense . . . or is it?

Authors/Roles: 
Judy Bloch


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