1961-1970DocumentaryIranKamran ShirdelShort Film

Kamran Shirdel – Qaleh AKA The Women’s Quarter (1966)

The deeply moving “Qaleh – The Women’s Quarter” (1966) shows the life of prostitutes in Tehran’s city brothels, an area known as Shahre Now. The film closely follows a number of women and communicates how the burden of social constraints led them to surrender in the face of their common fate. By including photos in the film, a very unique and artistic approach that brings to mind Chris Marker’s classic La Jeteé, Shirdel not only tempers the subject’s emotional heaviness but also respects the individual’s privacy, two pitfalls that often afflict films that deal with themes of this nature. The film does explore the possibility of re-education and development for these women, but in no way does it paint over the hard and brutal reality. As the film closes, a magnificent scene shot in slow motion leaves us with the memory of this ugliness forever imprinted in our minds.

The film was produced on behalf of the Organization of Iranian Women and was immediately banned while shooting was still going on. After the revolution, a portion of the material was found, and Shirdel decided to finish the film using photos by the late Kaveh Golestan that were taken more than ten years after the film itself was shot.



Qaleh.AKA.Womens.Quarter.1966.DVDRip.MP2.x264.mkv

General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 18 min 8 s
Size: 409 MiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 698x574 ~> 743x574
Aspect ratio: 1.296
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 2 931 kb/s
BPP: 0.293
Audio
#1: Persian 2.0ch MP2 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/BECCCFB7D5B0744/Qaleh.AKA.Womens.Quarter.1966.DVDRip.MP2.x264.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English [Hardcoded]

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