Madar-e sefr darajeh
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Madar-e sefr darajeh |
| Country of production | Iran |
| original language | Persian |
| year | 2007 |
| Production company |
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting |
| length | about 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 30 in 1 season |
| genre | drama |
| production | Hasan Beshkufe |
| music | Fardin Khalatbari |
| camera | Morteza Poursamadi |
| First broadcast | April 23, 2007 on Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting |
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Madar-e sefr darajeh ( Persian مدار صفر درجه Madār-e sefr darajeh ; unofficially in English Zero Degree Turn ; unofficially in German ( latitude: zero degrees ) is a thirty-part Iranian TV series that wasbroadcast on Iranian television for the first time in 2007 . It deals for the first time with the Holocaust in the Iranian mass media. The series is produced by the Iranian state. The film also features women without headscarves , which is otherwise not common on Iranian television.
The series was only broadcast in Persian , but it can be downloaded from the series' official homepage with English subtitles or viewed as a stream.
action
Habib, a young Iranian, comes to Paris with two friends shortly before the outbreak of World War II to study philosophy. He falls in love with his Jewish fellow student Sara. Soon the Nazis occupy the French capital and begin to deport Jews to concentration camps. Sara and her family's lives are in acute danger. Habib appears as a savior: He procures Iranian passports for them so that they can flee to Tehran.
reception
The series is a huge success in Iran. Many foreign media also praise the series. The Wall Street Journal writes that the series clearly places sympathies with the persecuted Jews, but at the same time emphasizes that the series is also directed against Zionism . However, this criticism falls short, according to Spiegel Online : the series is concealed revisionism and subtly takes up the theses of Holocaust deniers and revionists like Roger Garaudy in order to undermine the historical justification for Israel's right to exist . So z. B. assumed that Jewish Zionists had collaborated with Adolf Hitler to advance the Holocaust. This aspect of conspiracy theory has a preponderance over the presentation of historical facts in the series.
Web links
- Madar-e SEFR daradscheh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the series. ( Memento of April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Persian)
- Website that bundles blog entries for the series. ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Farnaz Fassihi: Iran's Unlikely TV Hit ( Memento from December 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wall Street Journal , September 7, 2007.
- ↑ Mohammad Reza Kazemi: “ Iranian Holocaust Series: Conspirators as Conquerors. “In: SPIEGEL-Online , from September 10, 2007, accessed on December 9, 2013.