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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Iranian Director

Born: May 29, 1957

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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Border Between Iran Afghanistan

The style depends on the subject. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Style Subject Depends

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

World Thinking Destroyed About Had Buddhas Taliban Get Afghanistan

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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