‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Director Mohammad Rasoulof on Current State of Iran: ‘The Islamic Republic Is Vulnerable and Unstable’
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Dissident Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof in May escaped to Europe after receiving a jail and flogging sentence from the country’s authorities for making his latest film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” that won the Special Jury prize at Cannes.
He is now traveling to Locarno to screen his powerful drama – about an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran who grapples with mistrust and paranoia as anti-government protests intensify and his family life is devastated – on the Swiss fest’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande.
Rasoulof took questions from Variety about adjusting to life in Europe and how he currently sees his country from the outside. You recently left Iran with a heavy heart.
How have you adjusted to living in Europe (I believe in Germany)? For many years, my focus was on living in Iran. I wanted to tell stories in my films that were necessary to tell from the heart of Iran.
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