Sadegh kamangar biography

Farzad Kamangar was an Iranian Kurdish teacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker from the city of Kamyaran, Iran who was executed.
The 96-minute movie is based on the story of Sadegh Kamangar, a pseudonym for an Iranian Kurdish poet imprisoned for 27 years in Iran.
Known by the pseudonym Sadegh Kamangar, the film's main character Sahel”(Auerbach,.

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Rhino Season: Bahman Ghobadi, Monica Bellucci interview

In film circles there's nothing like the five days of the Toronto International Film Festival when so many major Oscar-bait films are thrown at you all at once. Five hours sleep a night is being generous. In the festival's slower second phase when these films are no longer on offer, you end up watching movies you might not otherwise have chosen. Rhino Season proved quite the undiscovered gem coming late in the 2012 TIFF program.

I wanted the audience to feel for a few minutes what it was like to be in jail.

The Turkey-Kurdistan co-production, which marks the first film by Iranian-Kurdish writer-director Bahman Ghobadi since he left Iran in 2008, screened under the auspices of “Martin Scorsese Presents”. That the film features Monica Bellucci in a supporting role must have convinced Madman to pick it up for Australia, though it's the story of the film's star, 75 year-old Iranian acting legend Behrouz Vossoughi and Ghobadi, now 44, that makes the film hit home.

“When I wa

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Rhino Season

A love story marked by fate as a classical tragedy: in 1979 during Iran’s Islamic Revolution, poet Sahel Farzan and his wife were incarcerated – she for 10 years, he for 30. Convinced that her husband is already dead, Mina takes her two kids and moves to Turkey. It is there that the aging Sahel goes to look for her after his release. But her longtime admirer is also near at hand, a man who mercilessly interferes in their lives. Finally, out of the depths of the past – out of all those melancholy memories, verses, and magical pictures – the cruel truth emerges. This mystery melodrama grows to become an indictment of the regime and of repressive mechanisms capable of human destruction. The movie was inspired by the diary of Kurdish poet Sadegh Kamangar. In the lead roles the director cast Iranian legend of pre-Revolution film Behrouz Vossoughi, Italian star Monica Bellucci, and Yılmaz Erdoğan, the popular Turkish actor-director of Kurdish origin. The work is being presented under the auspices of Martin Scorsese.

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Farzad Kamangar

Executed Iranian Kurdish activist (1975–2010)

Farzad Kamangar (Persian: فرزاد کمانگر; c. 23 May 1975 – 9 May 2010) was an IranianKurdishteacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker from the city of Kamyaran, Iran who was executed on 9 May 2010.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The Accusations and the Courts

Kamangar was prosecuted on charges of Mohareb "enmity towards God". An Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced Kamangar to death on February 25, 2008, on charges against national security including being a member of PJAK and accusations of active participation in several bombing attacks among which was the 2006 explosion in the Iran-Turkey gas export pipeline.^[4] According to his lawyer, Khalil Bahramian, "Nothing in Kamangar’s judicial files and records demonstrates any links to the charges brought against him."^[3]

Bahramian, the lawyer, who was present during the closed-door court hearing, described it as

“Lasting no more than five minutes, with the Judge issuing his sentence without any e