Movie Night
Movie Night
Delshodegan
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008
When: 16th November
Where: Room 2-105 (map)
Director: Ali Hatami
Runtime: 91 min
“A movie about the Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France. While Ahmad Shah Ghajar is ruling in Iran, a French businessman takes responsibility to take some of the best Iranian musicians to Paris and record some of the oldest Iranian traditional songs and music. Agha Hosein Delnavaz takes responsibility of the artists. The French businessman leaves them by themselves when they reach Paris, but Agha Hosein Delnavaz sells his home to provide the money to finish the job and record the songs. The money of selling the house also finishes and the group now has to put a concert to make money. In the concert, Taher Khan who is the singer sings so deeply and puts the light back in the eyes of a Turkish Princes. Taher Khan dies in doing that and the rest of the group leave France to Iran by the ship. The ship sinks by the flames of the first world war, with all the records and artists in it.”
Quoted from here.