Tehran taboo

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Movie
German title Tehran taboo
Original title Tehran Taboo
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language Persian
Publishing year 2017
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ali Soozandeh
script Ali Soozandeh,
Grit Kienzlen
production Frank Geiger ,
Ali Samadi Ahadi ,
Marc Fencer ,
Armin Hofmann ,
Antonin Svoboda ,
Bruno Wagner ,
Mohammad Farokhmanesh
music Ali N. Askin
camera Martin Gschlacht
cut Frank Geiger
Andrea Mertens
occupation

Tehran Tabu (also: Tehran Taboo ) is a German - Austrian co-production from 2017 by Ali Soozandeh . The animation film was shot with real actors and alienated with the help of motion capture and rotoscopy . The premiere took place on May 20, 2017 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival 2017 , where the film was shown in the Semaine internationale de la critique section. The film was shown in Austria on October 29, 2017 at the Viennale . The theatrical release took place in Germany on November 16, 2017 and in Austria on November 30, 2017.

action

The social drama is about the three self-confident, strong Iranian women Pari, Sara and Donya as well as the young musician Babak, whose lives cross in the Iranian capital Tehran . In the contradicting society , characterized by patriarchy and double standards, taboo topics such as sex, corruption, prostitution and drug abuse collide with strict religious laws and values. Women become the plaything of religiously disguised oppression. Circumventing prohibitions becomes everyday sport, breaking taboos into individual self-realization. The film shows, for example, unscrupulous doctors who restore the virginity of women in return for high payments, or the moral police who arrest young couples if they are caught holding hands.

Pari finds herself forced into prostitution in order to earn a living for herself and her five-year-old, mute son Elias, because her drug-addicted husband does not consent to the divorce and while sitting in prison does not pay alimony for their son. Elias is there even when his mother is with her suitors, and seems to be indifferent to what is happening. When she gives a suitor a blowjob in his car while her son is sitting in the back seat, the driver freaks out when he discovers his unmarried daughter on the street holding hands with a man. She meets a wealthy judge who gives her an apartment in exchange for sex. There she meets the music student Barak and helps him get a loan from a bank.

Before her upcoming wedding, young Donya has to have her hymen restored after a one-night stand with Babak , as she will get married in a few days. She asks Babak to pay for it. When he got the money together with Paris's help, he went abroad with it. Donya reveals to Pari that she has no fiancé at all, but that she has got involved with a human trafficker who sells Iranian virgins to Dubai. Pari gives her some money so that she can travel home.

Housewife Sara is pregnant for the third time after two miscarriages, but would still like to work as a teacher again, but needs her husband's consent. She suffers from her repressive husband and obediently lives the traditional values ​​of Iranian society with him and his parents and in the same house that Pari has just moved into with her son. The two women become friends, Pari tells her that she works in the emergency room in a hospital. Sara takes care of Elias every now and then. One evening, while the two of them are drinking wine, Pari makes a joke call to her caretaker Joseph from Sara's cell phone and pretends that she would like to have sex with him. The situation becomes more serious when the caretaker is reported the next day and the authorities go to find the "whore in the house" by tracing the call. Sara doesn't tell Pari about the situation. The caretaker now knows that the call came from Sara's cell phone and is blackmailing her husband, who works at a bank, for a loan. He confronts Sara in front of Elijah's eyes and accuses her of sleeping with all the men in the neighborhood. Sara reveals to him that the two failed pregnancies were not miscarriages, but secretly aborted them. He demands that she leave the house. Sara brings Elias back to Pari, then gets drugs and throws herself off the roof of the house in a frenzy.

production

The shooting took place from May 19 to September 25, 2015, and the shooting took place in Vienna . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and Filmstandort Austria , the German Film Fund , the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation and the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund ; Austrian Broadcasting and ZDF were involved . The film was produced by the Hamburg-based Little Dream Entertainment GmbH , co-producer was the Austrian coop99 . Erika Navas is responsible for the costume design and Wiltrud Derschmidt for the mask. The film is the feature film debut of the Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh, who lives in Germany. The actors were first filmed in Vienna in front of a green screen before the material was alienated with the help of motion capture and, above all, rotoscopy , which was previously used in A Scanner Darkly, among others .

reception

Christoph Petersen judged the film starts : “You can tell the animated ensemble drama every second how much the makers care about their educational topic - this is evident in the powerfully committed narrative, but also in the fact that the film is above all At first it seems overloaded. ”The daily Kurier said:“ Soozandeh has packed the many sexual taboos of the Islamic Republic and the corruption of the Iranian authorities into an exciting story that can be read as an individual drama or as a highly politically charged metaphor. [...] The animation turns out to be a smart choice for this film, because it allows the viewer just enough distance to digest the sexually and politically charged topic more easily. "

Festivals, awards and nominations (selection)

The cast of Tehran Taboo at the Cannes International Film Festival 2017

The film was one of eleven German submissions for the 2019 Academy Awards for the category of best foreign language film .

See also

Web links

Commons : Tehran Taboo  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Tehran Tabu . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 166108 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b Kurier: "Tehran Tabu": The sexual taboos of the Islamic republic in focus . Article dated June 7, 2017, accessed July 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d Christoph Petersen: Teheran Tabu. In: film starts . Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Tehran Taboo (2017) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  5. ^ Diepresse.com: Viennale program: 14 films for the late Hans Hurch . Article dated August 25, 2017, accessed August 26, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Tehran taboo. In: Austrian Film Institute . Retrieved July 15, 2017 .
  7. ^ Tehran taboo cinema. In: Vienna Film Fund . Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ Tehran taboo. In: Vienna Film Fund. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  9. ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Cannes Film Festival - "Tehran Tabu": The Two Faces of Iran . Article dated May 21, 2017, accessed March 18, 2020.
  10. ↑ The 2017 Jerusalem Film Festival Winners Announced . Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  11. ^ ZDF / ARTE feature film "Teheran Tabu" was awarded the "MFG Star" young talent award at the TV film festival in Baden-Baden . Article dated December 1, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017.
  12. ^ Romy or Richter: Who will represent Germany at the Oscar? . Article dated August 28, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018.