Director: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb after Zahra Dowlatabadi's original idea
Cinematographers: Ali Loghmani, Majid Gorjian
Editor: Jila Ipakchi
Sound : Nezam Kiaie, Maziar Sheikhmahbobi
Contact:
Iranian Independents
PO BOX 15875-4769
Tel: 98.912.319.8693
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 2010
HD CAM, Colour, 52 min,
OV Farsi with English Subtitles
French Electronic Subtitles
French Premiere
Three years after his tender wife Shahindokht died in a car accident, Homayoun Sanati tells us how he, a well-read and refined man, a translator and one of the pioneers in modern publishing in Iran, had decided to venture in a totally different milieu: the rose culture. His wife and he started to grow roses and set up a small workshop to extract rose essential oil in the Kerman region where poppies are traditionally cultivated. They had to be most obstinate to overcome all the obstacles in their way. To start with, they had to persuade the peasants who were convinced that opium was far more profitable than roses.
