Marmoulak

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Movie
Original title Marmoulak
Country of production Iran
original language Persian
Publishing year 2004
length 115 minutes
Rod
Director Kamal Tabrisi
script Peyman Ghassemkhani
production Manutschehr Mohammadi
music Mohammad Resa Aligholi
camera Hamid Chosui-Abianeh
cut Hossein Sandbaf
occupation

Marmoulak ( Persian مارمولک Mārmulak , 'Lizard') is an Iranian film from 2004 . Kamal Tabrisi directed this comedy film, but its subversive undertones and ironic interjections turn it into a socially critical and moralizing satire. The main role was played by Parviz Parastui .

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The common thief Resa Marmulak is arrested while attempting a break-in while climbing a house wall. In prison, he is tamed by the director of the institution, who believes he has an educational mandate for the prisoners and calls the prison a sanatorium. Since Resa, known as Marmulak (lizard) because of his climbing skills, never carries a weapon during his raids and only commits crimes out of poverty, he cannot bear to serve his sentence. After attempting suicide in the prison hospital, while cursing the clergy, he becomes acquainted with a man whose name is also Resa and who - as it turns out later - is a clergyman. The latter reads to him from the little prince and encourages Resa to find ways to God countless and not denied to a prisoner either. While the clergyman is showering, Resa grabs his clothes and flees in clerical robes and sunglasses, like the ones Khatami wears. On the run, he comes across a community that thinks he is their new preacher and is taken to a mosque in a small village. A provincial politician also uses it for his election campaign because the community's mosque has been filling up since the new preacher Resa. From there Resa, who doesn't even know how to pray, tries to flee, but at the same time has to maintain the facade of the village preacher because the police and above all the prison director are on his trail.

A selection of comical elements:

  • A thief is in the garb of a clergyman
  • As a clergyman, he is not given a taxi and is almost hit and insulted. When someone finally picks him up, the driver uses Resa to be able to take a shortcut that a police officer controls, who only allows mercy because of the clergy, and drops him off at a place Resa did not want to go.
  • Resa practices speaking like clergymen and repeats television preachers who discuss pulp fiction , internet and chat
  • He cannot pray
  • The central statement "Paths to finding God are infinite and accessible to everyone" is made clear to the community using the example of the path of a burglar into a house
  • Questions about behavior that is not regulated in Islam, for example how an astronaut and an astronaut should behave when they come into contact in weightlessness

Trivia

  • The film was released under adverse circumstances two months after its completion as some clergy found the film offensive. So it was banned a month after it was successfully launched in cinemas on the Nourus holidays and when the scandalous film par excellence filled cinemas, so that Iranians could only watch it clandestinely in poor quality.
  • It is said that the somewhat vigorous Parviz Parastui played all the stunts himself.

Awards

The film won an award at the Fajr International Film Festival.

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