A Moment of Innocence
(Nun va goldoon)
by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran
Sript: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer: Mahmoud Kalari
Editing: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Art Director: Reza Alagheband
Music: Majid Entezami
Cast: Mirhadi Tayebi, Ali Bakshi, Ammar Tafti, Marjam Mohamadamini, M. Makhmalbaf, Moharam Zinalzadeh
Production: Makhmalbaf Film House
Distribution:
Film Distribution
34 rue du Louvre
75 001 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.53.10.39.99
Fax: 0033 1.53.10.33.98
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www.filmsdistribution.com
Year: 1996
35 mm, Colour, 78 min,
OV Farsi with French Subtitles
Unreleased
A former policeman goes to Teheran to meet Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
In 1975, they had met in dramatic conditions. Young Mohsen, an opponent of the regime of the Shah, stabbed a policeman while trying to steal his pistol. He was jailed until the revolution. The film-maker proposes the policeman to retrace this event in a film. Each of them will have his own team and will shoot the film according to his own interpretation. Each of them chooses an actor to play their own part.
"The purpose is not to depict one of us as a hero and the other one as an antihero. We simply try to find out the secret of these twenty-two years lost in our life…A Moment of Innocence is a story between reality and imagination, past and present."
