Radiograph of a Family (2020)

Name: Radiograph of a Family
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-07-05T13:48:31+02:00
Rating: 3.5

Documentary | 82 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 82 minuten

Country: Norway / Iran / Switzerland

Directed by: Firouzeh Khosrovani

IMDb score: 7,4 (316)

Releasedate: 23 November 2020

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Radiograph of a Family plot

“Mother married a picture of father,” is the opening line of this intimate documentary. It turns out that it is not the poetic freedom of maker Firouzeh Khosrovani. Her mother Tayi literally married a portrait of Hossein in Tehran, because as a radiology student in Switzerland he could not just travel back to his home country. It proves indicative of the rift that has always existed in this marriage between the secular, progressive Hossein and the traditional, devout Muslim Tayi. In this way, this family history is also an X-ray that shows the conflicts in Iranian society in the run-up to and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.