speciality. has an italian god not clearing some if he found the good stuff klim masterpiece hidden in a wall of the gallery from where it was stolen over 20 years ago will have its. butts we begin with the film tomorrow we are free which is a love story set around the time of the iranian revolution and $979.00 it's also the story of a clash of cultures a german woman married to on a rainy a man and a young daughter in the middle of it all the man is driven by the desire to create a free and equal society after the fall of the shah but of course it's not that simple. this film is a labor of love this story behind it has much to do with the filmmakers own life. same process a few took 10 years to make his movie tomorrow we are free it says feature film

debut as a director and he also wrote the story the film is set in 1979 and tells the story of the married couple and she's a chemist and he's germany he's an iranian dissident who fled to east berlin back you don't know that. when the shah leaves iran they decide to move back to only it's home and along with their daughter sara. but the in this show euphoria is soon turns into disillusionment as radical clerics gain political power and finally turn iran into an islamic republic. that development has dramatic consequences for the family was same per se fi and his family fled the islamic republic when he was 9 years old and settled and west germany his childhood memories have influenced the movie which is also based on a true story. for the director the film is also. a call for freedom and human

rights 40 years after the reigning revolution that's a message that couldn't be more topical. and the director roger for safer joins me now thank you very much could be multiple call it mentions that is here. it is the mentions of the story of your own family fleeing the islamic republic but you actually met the real family the stories about this because based on a true story here in berlin right right so it was about 10 years ago we met and they told me their story and i thought well this has to be told this is something that interests me both because it's about iran but also because a part of me is german and we are in europe and we are telling the story through the eyes of the european woman who travels back in time to to this world so it was almost a no brainer and it's become. really quite topical absolutely so you

just have to look back at last month in iran where thousands of iranians were protesting and their protest was brutally struck down by the regime and thousands were arrested the 200000 people were killed on the streets so what we are telling is basically the birth of what's happening today around the world and in iran of course where do you run if they're suffering at the hands of the regime even 40 years later now obviously are seeing the film and it looks like you're shooting in iran but obviously because the. you couldn't so how did you do it as a big compliment for us that the illusion of shooting in iran has sort of managed to get through to to our viewers we shot the inside out on the phone and the outside in spain and it was you know how i see because of the sort of moorish right there are a lot of similarities but what you have to also remember is that we shot a lot of green screen and blue screens so we were able to sort of used special effects. computer technology to fake that image of iran her background. and i want

to find out how you found this wonderful cast because i believe you as you said you said it's been it's been 10 years in the making but i believe you actually have an older car strike we have in all the cars initially but we got into some schedule conflicts with some of them and so what we had to do is decide. you know these kind of actors who can do all the things that we're asking of them you know speaking multiple languages and being good at acting they're very rare so then we decide to settle on younger actors maybe less known actors but these people with these 2 actors in the background they were able to convey the love story so beautifully that it's almost like a lock from the beginning and i don't think they're going to remain very anonymous for. you know i hope not. deserve to be known of the actors because they're great they all of us a problem let's just see another small example here all of the 2 main characters

all going about the direction the revolution in iran has taken. us not to be told it's going to get to. you guys that we could be still. doesn't get it's was not much and it's going to put it's one in a high action and this is different because it's sort of statement about the right so this is. making us listening to you but i don't care if you don't do you have for this what i thought i thought i was not going to let it go i miss. pretty good that's pretty didn't think it was very convincing to me i have to say i had a lump in my throat at certain points in the film that we would have well give away but omit the iranian husband he's an intelligent guy he's a lovely guy loves his wife he loves his child. and later in that very scene actually he says he says he's seen the violence he's seen the subjugation of women

which is something that comes out in the evening and even though he lived in europe for 16 years he kind of except why i think there is a way of looking at this where you know a ruler evolution is very rare it once in a lifetime experience right so sometimes when something like this happens where you can reorganize and refashion a whole facility in another image away from what you've hated before you see that as a great opportunity and you start projecting things into it you want to think things to be the way you project them to be and you sort of ignore all the noise that you thought of in a way of that image that you wanted to be so being intelligent is doesn't make you immune from dreaming about something and that's what his problem is he also says not. every revolution has a prize were not written in script on a curve do you think it does well i think the question is does

a violent revolution ever and in a democratic society and my personal opinion is that the moment that a revolution or a people is introduced violence the most violent elements that led it will want to preserve their control of the revolution and so democracy and relinquishing power is imminently impossible so if you look at german history maybe european history if you look at the fall of the or the berlin wall for instance the only way this could work in east. countries was because it was without violence thank you very much for coming in today hosain for safety it's a wonderful film i urge people to see it it's called tomorrow we are free check it out google it or whatever thanks for having the facts. british artist is wrong materials are little out of the ordinary no palace and paint brushes but instead children's play dough a kitchen chopping board

a scalpel and an empty wine bottle as a rolling pin then just to work fast as the play dough she mulled sets quickly and she needs to take some photos and treat is mall. colorful modeling pouty it's an ideal plaything for kids but it can also be used to create genuine what's about. especially in the hands of london artist ellen mcmahon. sat 6 years ago a knack of friends and they ran a photographic pop quiz at one of their minds was to remake a famous photograph in place and my team won that one and say really i just part that. the idea inspired a knock project but it's anything but child's play the challenge for elena is to complete the figure in just a few hours the modeling compound dries quickly and turns brittle she has to

balance with precision. i think the i and she take me through the longest time. and if the ice it's really hard to catch they might say. well a number. 2 is from the internet and recreates them her favorite subjects images by well known for talk of hers such as nicholas murray cindy sherman and diane arbus. i think spirit some people judging it as just throw away at this for children i think the reason is that we're very quick to judge and say face good or it's bad and so i think i'm playing around with that little pat asking the question that can it because it upsets me from playing tennis like me to rio and because it's popular on the internet does it mean it's necessarily bad it's popular in an adult form as

well a london gallery commissioned her to make models for an exhibition they became surrealistic rendered in plato. gallery manager gareth meredith says their real attention getters what's so special about this exhibition i guess it's elena's concept of taking surveillance artists recapturing them in 3 plato's sculptures and blowing them up into large scale here. in the 1920 s. surrealist like french or thought. experimented with the 1st automated photo booths in paris. and then mcnair turns the black and white post what photos into colorful close ups. but no matter how big a success the photo of a model may be all the figures meet the same fate. they're destroyed none of them survived longer than one day.

and i to think these are just space of only half right it's worth it's like when we're looking through the images on our face every day we see hundreds and hundreds and we take stock in that we devalued the images highly enough so it's kind of a player not a modeling party becomes a work of art but it finally refers to 2 weeks original unbuilt full of. fun. the location of this painting portrait of a lady by ghost stuff clipped one of the world's most sought after missing artworks has been a mystery since it was stolen from an art gallery in p a chance it's a day back in 1997. the italian police are now investigating off the painting was discovered hidden in a wall of the very gallery where it been previously been on display however the

mystery deepens as the gallery and its surroundings were checked with a fine tooth comb after the theft on the painting is also in excellent condition so it couldn't have been there for the last 2 decades it's still to be authenticated but it does look like it's the original. will keep you up to date on my story as it develops because it certainly is going to do better person it's an intriguing moment that's all for now though from arts and culture thanks for watching.

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