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speciality. has an italian garden a clearing some even found the good stuff clint 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 in 1979 it's also the story of a clash of cultures a german woman married to on a rainy 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 perceive he took 10 years to make his movie tomorrow we are free it's a feature film debut as
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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 in east germany he's an iranian dissident who fled to east berlin back you know never got fired. when the shah leaves iran they decide to move back to only it's homeland 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 poor safety 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 rain revolution that's
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a message that couldn't be more topical. and the director and roger also in full safety joins me now thank you very much could be multiple for call it mentions is here. it is the mentions of the story of your own family fleeing the islamic republic but you actually met the real family that the story is 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're telling the story through the eyes of the european woman who travels back in time to this world so it was almost a no brainer and it's become this nice are really quite topical absolutely so you
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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 210000 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 honest are 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 cons and. you couldn't so how did you do it 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. and the outside in spain and it was you. always see because of the sort of morrish 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 that we were able to sort of used special effects and computer technology to fake that image of iran the background. and i
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want to find out how you found this wonderful cause 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 had an older car strike we had all the cars initially but we got into some schedule conflicts with 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 to their fifty's or to be known of that just because they're great they all this a problem let's just see another small example here all of the 2 main characters
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all going about the direction of the revolution in iran as to how you can destroy you it's not your choice to get i just think you got the wake of the week. that does not give pause this was a month. and it's going to put its running up high action this is different because it's your statement about the right so this is. making us listening to you but i got to see that you have. what i thought i thought is not going to let it go on this. pretty good that's a pretty good thing 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 does loves his child. and later in that very same actually he says he says he's seen the violence he's seen the subjugation of women
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which is something that comes out and so even though 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 once in a lifetime experience right so sometimes when something like this happens where you can reorganize and refashion a whole society in another image away from what you've hated before you see that the 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 is sort of in a way of that image that you want to be so being intelligent is doesn't make you immune from dreaming about something and that's what the problem is he also says and i quote every revolution has a price for not written in scripture. do you think it does i think the
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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 lead 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 me thanks. british artist roman syrians are a little out of the ordinary no polish and paint brushes but instead children's play dough a kitchen chopping board a scalpel and an empty wine bottle is
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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 avant. especially in the hands of london artist ellen mcmahon. the fact 6 years ago a knack of car friends and they ran a photographic pop quiz at one of their items was to remake a famous photograph in place and my team won that one and say really i just brought that idea. the idea inspired to knock the project but it's anything but child's play the challenge for elena is to complete a figure in just a few hours the modeling compound dries quickly and turns brittle she has to
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balance speed with precision. i think the i and she take me through the longest time. and if the ice k. wrong it's really hard to catch them my. number 2 is from the internet and recreates them have favorite subjects images by well known for talkers 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 if it's good or it's bad and say i think i'm playing around with that little bat asking the question that can it because it upsets me from a tennis line material and because it's popular on the internet does it mean it's
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necessarily bad it's popular in the long 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 plates sculptures and blowing them up into large scale here. in the 1920 s. to release like french or thought onto a britain experimented with the 1st automated photo booths in paris. and then the mcmath turns the black and white passport photos into colorful close ups. but no matter how big a success the photo of a model might be all the figures meet the same fate. they're destroyed none of them survived longer than one day.
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and i did these are displays of oh they have framed this 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 day 500 images highly enough so it's kind of a player not modeling policy becomes a work of art but it finally repairs just 2 weeks originally humble full of. fine. only the location of this painting portrait of a lady by good stuff clipped one of the world's most sought after missing art works has been a mystery since it was stolen from an art gallery in it's a date back in 1997. the italian police are now investigating after the painting was discovered hidden in a wall of the very gallery where it been previously been on display however the
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mystery deepens as the gallery and its surroundings were checked with a fine tooth comb after the theft and 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 its name is going to divide up business and intrigue that's all for now though from arts and culture thanks for watching. the point of strong opinions clear positions international perspectives. as un climate negotiations and to their decisive phase to this demand the world leaders get serious with evidence of catastrophic effects mounting is the current climate anxiety too little too late that's our topic on troop 2 point. down
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