Tehran Today (1977)

Khosrow Sinai's documentary produced by Iranian state tv (NIRT)

Opening text: "This film is about my city. Where I have lived most of my life, whose cycles framed my days, whose rhythms formed my thoughts. I was not born here. I have come, like so many others, drawn by the vitality of the capital. Now a Tehrani, I battle with the traffic I have created. I compete for the space my presence reduces. I curse the crowds, the noise, the confusion. I cheer the passion, the power, the purpose. Living in Tehran is a challenge. Each day I face a world being born, and I labor with the relentless demands of change. But even as I bend to adapt, I struggle to retain control. Amid the chaos of a town exploding to a metropolis, I am still here, in the city I hate, the city I love."

Tehran Today from Iranian Documentaries on Vimeo.

from mehrdadm
29-Apr-2011
nostalgia | Photos
Balatarin
Share/Save/Bookmark

Recently by mehrdadmCommentsDate
Omid Djalili: The Baha'i Faith in Words and Images
11
Dec 05, 2012
Dimmed Lanterns
1
Dec 05, 2012
Iranian TV shows off 'captured US ScanEagle drone'
5
Dec 04, 2012
more from mehrdadm
 
Red Wine

...

by Red Wine on Sat Apr 30, 2011 02:48 PM PDT

اگر شهرستانیها و دهاتیها از تهران روند،شهر خلوت خواهد شد اما راه حل نهایی این نخواهد بود... خانه از پای بست خراب است و حیف و صد حیف که این گونه قسمت تهران شد و بد بختی و نکبت تمای تهران نشینان را گرفت !


  •  
hazratee

تهران آزاد است مرا آرزو

hazratee
Sat Apr 30, 2011 01:13 PM PDT

آرزوی بزرگم این است که تهرون روزی مستقل و یگانه شود. وجودش از تمام دهاتیها و شهرستانیها پاک شود. آه، خدای من آیا آن روز فرا خواهد رسید؟


  •  
Red Wine

...

by Red Wine on Sat Apr 30, 2011 09:31 AM PDT

فیلمی حاذق اما .  .

از اواخر سالهای ۴۰ شمسی‌..تهران دیگر از مقام صاحب منصبی یک پایتخت ور افتاد و خلق الله از تمام قصبات و ولایات سرازیر شدند بدانجا !

اینها که می‌‌گویند اهل تهرانند،زاده آنجا و بچه محل نوّاب و چهار باغ و شوش و غیره هستند.. پس کجایند ؟! کو شجره نامها و کو سجلدات ثبت احوال ؟! دائم ادعا و آخر شام و ناهار هیچ ! شهر خراب و زشت بود و حال بعد از ۳۰ سال دیگر آنجا جای زندگی‌ نیست ! .. ارزانی‌ آنهایی که این بلا را سر آنجا آوردند .

 


  •  
Mamane-Omid

So foreign

by Mamane-Omid on Sat Apr 30, 2011 08:04 AM PDT

 

yet so familiar. Tehran was changing and is changing ever faster. Did you notice the mix of "Ba-Hejab" and "Be-Hejab" in the segment showing Con-coure entrance exam? 

We can't deny the high number of superstitious (read religious) among our compatriots, back then and now.

With all the good memories a film like this brings back, I'm not sure I can still tolerate to live among so many with religious tendencies.

Regardless of if Iran was a political democracy, she still would have a strong element of religion in it. As we all know, all monolithic religions teach intolerance, chauvinism, and bigotry. So, until such time that the psyche of the Iranian society is transformed, nothing fundamentally be different.

By the way. I think the above also holds true for the Arab countries going through their current changes. Hope I'm proven wrong, but I don't think so. 

Thanks for sharingthe video, enjoyed it immensely. 

 

Mamane-Omid


  •  
Bunyip

Thank you Merdadm

by Bunyip on Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:56 PM PDT

You truly and vividly resurrected memories of my growing years. Every scene has brought back fond memories. I was born and grew up in Tehran, just like my dad and his parents (my grandparents). I left Tehran in 1978 in my teens, and have never been back, something I dearly want to do. This documentary has brought back memories of:

- gowjeh sabz; zoghal akhteh; balal; laboo; kabab foroush-ha;

- khyaboonhayeh Shah, Pahlavi;Shokoofeh (where my grandparents lived); Shahnaz; Bolvareh Elizabeth (where my dad bought my very first set of Meccano set);

- Meydoonhayeh Zhaleh; 24 Esfand; Fouzieh (whatever they are named now);

- anything goes horrendous traffic;

- Zhyan; Paykan; Arya and Shahin cars;

- also the lady in red I used to see when passing through meydooneh Ferdowsi in a double-decker bus;

- how about Talareh Roodaki and Parkeh Shahanshahi;

- and the youthful Sattar and Googoosh.

You have really made me homesick. But I am afraid what is in my memory will be vastly unrecognisable and different to what is in Tehran today (naturally).


  •  
shushtari

wow....this is a gem

by shushtari on Fri Apr 29, 2011 06:41 PM PDT

thanks


  •  
Layli

the Silent Lady in Red

by Layli on Fri Apr 29, 2011 01:50 PM PDT

I was touched by the personage of the Silent Lady in Red. I had heard about her and now i saw her I know who was the Zan e Ghermez Poosh e Maidoon Ferdousi


  •  
Layli

I agree with JJ

by Layli on Fri Apr 29, 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Completely!


  •  
afshinazad

Forgotten and alien Iran

by afshinazad on Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Forgotten and alien Iran

Why is so difficult to look at our past and not to go in deep depression.

The Iran that I see here and what I remember seems foreign country and hard to believe that I ever lived in there, when I see today’s Iran seems strange, no more smile, no more hope.

 


  •  
Jahanshah Javid

mystical... & prophetic?

by Jahanshah Javid on Fri Apr 29, 2011 09:52 AM PDT

this is not what you would normally expect from a documentary produced by the Iranian state tv. this is not propaganda. it's reflective and very close to reality. there's a race to become a modern, secular society but centuries-old traditions, alienation and poverty are obstacles that don't go away easily.

if iran was a democracy, these and other deep tensions could be debated and resolved by national consensus. but if only one man makes key decisions, you build a lot of resentment.


  •  
Reality-Bites

"Selective memory" of our history...

by Reality-Bites on Fri Apr 29, 2011 09:40 AM PDT

hasn't haunted us anywhere as much as what has actually happened in the past three decades.


  •  
پندارنیک

And then the regime fell like a dead leaf...

by پندارنیک on Fri Apr 29, 2011 09:23 AM PDT

Selective memory of our painful history is a demon which has haunted some of us for the past three decades.


  •  
Raoul1955

Such a Nice

by Raoul1955 on Fri Apr 29, 2011 08:42 AM PDT

Video.   :-)


  •