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Death in
Tehran Assassination In The Name Of
God
Filim Milim,
filim-milim.de published on 15.11.2018
"Even if they tear my body apart, they will not tear me
away," --writes Parvaneh
Foruhar to her husband in a letter to the wedding
day.
On November 28, 1998, the couple, now
well-known Iranian opposition politicians, are murdered in their home in
Tehran.
"Death in
Tehran" is a touching film documentary by the German journalist
and documentary filmmaker Thomas
Giefer.
Dariush and Parwaneh
Forouhar, the parents of the artist and activist Parastou Forouhar, were among
Iran's leading opposition politicians and were murdered in 1998, presumably by
the Iranian intelligence service.
The murders were part of the
so-called chain murders, which numerous oppositional intellectuals fell victim
to during the 1990s in Iran. Parastou
Forouhar has lived and worked in Germany since 1991 and
regularly travels to Teheran on the anniversary of her parents' death to attend
commemorative events for her murdered parents. The Iranian regime exposed her to
harassment and occasionally arrested her. She learns by
phone about the death of her parents. Two days later, when she has to identify
the bodies, she is struck dumbfounded by the brutality of the crime: 60-year-old
Parvaneh and 70-year-old Dariush Foruhar
murdered with Dozens of knife-wounds. The house is devastated, a great amount of
documents - her political life's work - have disappeared.
 Parastou
Foruhar
WDR author
Thomas Giefer met the Foruhars shortly before they
were murdered and recorded the last interview with them - a touching film
documentary of the old couple and their love - and a testament to their lifelong
political partnership.
 Parvaneh and Dariush Foruhar murdered with
Dozens of knife-wounds
The film reconstructs the
gruesome and hair-raising details of this politically and religiously motivated
murder, accompanies the daughter Parastou
Foruhar in her search for truth and justice, and traces the
crime into the center of power of the Islamic state of
God.
Thomas Giefer succeeds in
creating an inside view of religious fanaticism and state terror - but at the
same time a film about love, death and the eternal dream of freedom.
A film by Thomas Giefer Editor: Heribert
Blondiau Camera: Yüksel Ugurlu
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