Iran (Pt. 1-Tehran & Pt. 2-From Tehran to Kermansah)

Ιράν (α’ μέρος-Τεχεράνη & β’ μέρος-Από την Τεχεράνη στην Κερμανσά)

"World Musicians" guides us through a country which has turned the eyes of the world towards it: Iran.A place where music is also a political issue. In the first part, Leonidas Antonopoulos visits Tehran, a big city, where reality plays hide-and-seek with prohibitions and the voice of the youth is expressed through rap, rock, even heavy metal, along with the great exponents of classical Iranian music.There he meets singer Shahram Nazeri, a man who renewed classical Iranian music, and also the all-women group Rozaneh. He finds the first generation of Iranian rappers recording their songs clandestinely, the first death metal group of the country, Seven Deadly Sins, who are obliged to give concerts in front of a seated-only audience and are not permitted to sing their lyrics in public.He also talks to the first mixed pop group, the successful Arian. In the second part, Leonidas Antonopoulos leaves Tehran by car together with the Kurdish tanbur virtuoso Ali Akbar Moradi, on a journey behind the curtain.At Tabriz, in Iranian Azerbaijan, he gets to know the centuries-old tradition of the Caucasian "asiks" through a meeting with Asik Hasan. He visits a Sufi "teke" (lodge), for a sensational musical and religious ritual, where the congregation is led to the verge of ecstasy and, together with Moradi, he goes to weddings and celebrations in Iranian Kurdistan that are reminiscent of Greece.The ages-old sounds of the Ahl-e haqq brotherhood, to which Moradi belongs, make up the soundtrack of a trip to unfamiliar places of an unknown country.

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Direction: Chronis Pechlivanidis
Script: Leonidas Antonopoulos
Cinematography: Chronis Pechlivanidis
Editing: Constantinos Adraktas
Production: ΕΡΤ ΑΕ / ERT SA (Γιάννης Κόλλιας / Yannis Kollias Ζέφη Τσουκαλά / Zefi Tsoukala) T. +30 210 607 5711-12 F. +30 210 6075 715 ykollias@ert.gr ztsoukala@ert.gr www.ert.gr
Producers: Chronis Pechivanidis
Format: Betacam SP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2006
Duration: 45' & 46’

Chronis Pechlivanidis