"Fresh Breaths" is the name of a documentary made by Kianoush Ayari in the summer of 1979, a year after the revolution

Read
1 minute
-Thursday 2024/09/26 - 19:41
News Code:4311
Video file

These expressive frames have no narrator.

The streets, filled with young boys and girls, are the narrators of this story.

Young people searching for their future amidst the book stalls, cassette tapes, and newspapers.

Girls selling Coca-Cola walk alongside armed men, and young men with ties enjoy ice cream.

One sells Motahhari's books, another sells Samad Behrangi’s. Supporters and opponents talk to each other with smiles and hope, sitting together at speeches because they believe the revolution is the beginning of a new life for them.

In every theater hall, the Shah is mocked time and again, SAVAK is overthrown, and the revolution is victorious. The true colors of some people and the hidden aspects of certain events have yet to be revealed.

A young man imitates Fereydoun Farrokhzad in the middle of a park; another tries to dance like Soley, and the rest laugh at him.

An unfiltered snapshot of those unique days.

-Mehdi Nasiri’s channel

Take less than a minute, register and share your opinion under this post.
Insulting or inciting messages will be deleted.
Sign Up