Zero Degree Turn
| Zero Degree Turn | |
|---|---|
| File:Zero Degree Turn (Madare Sefr Darajeh).jpg Madare Sefr Darajeh | |
| Created by | Hassan Fathi |
| Starring | Shahab Hosseini Nathalie Matti Roya Teymourian Masoud Raigan Pierre Dagher Laya Zanganeh Iraj Rad Atheneh Faghih Nassiri Payam Dehkordi Rahim Noroozi Farrokh Nemati Esmail Shangaleh Fadi Edward Hasmiq Taschgian Ahmad Saatchian Ali Qorbanzadeh Kioomars Malek Motiei |
| Ending theme | Media:When I fell in love.ogg (vaghti ke man ashegh shodam) |
| Country of origin |  Iran  Hungary  France  Lebanon |
| Original languages | Persian French German |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Hassan Beshkoufeh |
| Running time | Each episode approximately 50 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 1 (Iran) |
| Release | April 23, 2007 – November, 2007 |
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Madare sefr darajeh (in Persian : مدار صفر درجه , in English : The Zero Degree Turn) is a 2007 television miniseries, made through the cooperation of Iran, Hungary, France and Lebanon. The program was one of most expensive and elaborate ever produced by Iran and attracted a large audience there.[1]
Plot
Set in the time of the Second World War, Madare sefr darajeh follows the life of an Iranian student named Habib Parsa (Shahab Hosseini) who travels to Paris to study. There Habib meets a French Jewish woman named Sarah Struk, a student at the same university. At first antagonistic toward one another, Habib and Sarah eventually fall in love. They run into many problems, including persecution by the Nazis and by Sarah's Zionist uncle, but are united in the end.[1]
Opinions about
The government financed film has been widely cited as an effort by the government to demonstrate its ostensibly contradictory positions, encompassing sympathy for the Jewish people (including an orthodox view of the Holocaust) while remaining hostile to Zionism.[2]
The director of the series, Hassan Fathi, said about it, "I decided to produce this series in 2002, and in those days the Holocaust was not an issue. Even if one single Jew is killed in German camps, the world should be ashamed. By the same token, if a single Palestinian dies, the world should be ashamed. I sympathize with the Jewish victims of World War II, to the same extent with women and children victims of the war in Palestine." [1]
References
- ^ a b c In hit Iranian TV drama, Holocaust no 'myth'
- ^ Fassihi, Farnaz (September 7, 2007), "Iran's Unlikely TV Hit", The Wall Street Journal: B1, retrieved September 17, 2007
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External Links
- "Iran launches Holocaust miniseries". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
{{cite web}}: Text "Jerusalem Post" ignored (help) - "Iran retells the story of Nazis and Israel on state television - Haaretz - Israel News". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- "'Zero Degree Turn': An Iranian soap opera - Israel Culture, Ynetnews". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- "Editor's Notes: Global amnesia". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
{{cite web}}: Text "Jerusalem Post" ignored (help) - "'Just World News' with Helena Cobban: An Iranian Schindler's List: "Zero Degree Turn"". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- "Downloadable episodes in Farsi". Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- "You can listen to the end titrage music of "Madare Sefr Darajeh" here". Retrieved 2007-10-12.
{{cite web}}: Text "hosted by: jim cornell <cornel.jim@gmail.com>" ignored (help) - "Watch 10 minutes of first episode". Retrieved 2007-11-11.