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Synopsis
With an eye for an
eye, the whole world would go blind. This is a true
story about a woman named Tondar who killed her husband
Aram and left his body in the bedroom closet . Aram's soul
is wandering all around the house and Tondar follows the
traces of the past that is never forgotten. The story is
based on sequences of an actual event that occurred in
Iran 4 years ago . More info and photos on
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Synopsis
A man who lives a
simple and uneventful life gets acquainted with a woman
on the street. Taking her to an empty house belonging to
one of his friends, hoping to have sex , just as he is
about to get in the act, the woman spots his wedding
ring and informs him she has AIDS... Additional details
and photos on
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Previous events :
He has produced his short films himself,
without any financial support. He has just finished
editing his third short film. He hopes he can make his
first feature film in the near future. Some of his works
include: In theatre: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (as actor), Macbeth (as actor and assistant
director), Richard III (as actor and assistant
director). In cinema: Duel (directed by Ahmad Reza
Darvish) (as actor), Circle (Directed by Jafar Panahi)
(as actor and assistant director), Theorem (directed by
Ebrahim Vahidzadeh) (as actor). He has also co-operated
with dubbing department of Iran Tv in dubbing 14 foreign
Tv serials. Majdzadeh has been teaching oratory to
tourist guides in Iran Tourism & Touring Organization.
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Previous events :
Born in Tehran, 1973, he began his
artistic career in 1983 by entering Iran’s Art and
Literature School. Played various roles on the stage and
in Tv serials. After finishing high school in 1991,
entered university and studied Electronics for 3/5 years
but finally switched and began studing stage acting,
directing and oratory technique under the tutelage of
master Samandarian(who is an outstanding expert in
Beresht and Max Freish works).Then studied camera
acting, film directing, playwriting and scriptwriting
under the supervision of master Alasti (an expert in
America cinema and avant-garde cinema in Iran).
Majdzadeh has been working on the stage, television,
radio, cinema and dubbing since 1994. He has worked as
actor and director assistant in 19 professional plays,
10 movies (as actor and assistant director), 25 Tv
series and 400 radio plays and he has directed three
short films (“Born in What Century” is his second short
film). He has produced his short films himself, without
any financial support. He has just finished editing his
third short film. He hopes he can make his first feature
film in the near future. Some of his works include: In
theatre: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as
actor), Macbeth (as actor and assistant director),
Richard III (as actor and assistant director). In
cinema: Duel (directed by Ahmad Reza Darvish) (as
actor), Circle (Directed by Jafar Panahi) (as actor and
assistant director), Theorem (directed by Ebrahim
Vahidzadeh) (as actor). He has also co-operated with
dubbing department of Iran Tv in dubbing 14 foreign Tv
serials. Majdzadeh has been teaching oratory to tourist
guides in Iran Tourism & Touring Organization.
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Director's comments about
the film "Born in What Century"
“Born in What Century”
is about love and human communication and social and
familial relationships in the 21th century, the century
which has been called The Cnetury of Violance.
Furthermore, this film can be considered as a
psychological film. In this film we see a woman who
lives in a third world country, Iran. She lives in
wealth and total comfort but she suffers from an inner
pain, a pain which actuates her to kill her husband and
hiding his corpse in a wardrobe of bedroom. In fact by
killing her husband, she kills her love, her hope and
her life. So what is the reason of her crime? I think
the reason lies in the situation which the society has
imposed on women and the problems of identity which most
women face in third world countries. What will become of
mutual understanding in such society and such situation?
The society in which “killing” and “being killed’ is the
only way which leads to deliverance!
“Born in What Century”
takes a short but meticulous and avant-garde look at all
the deficiencies and promlems of this century. During
the film, the main character, Tondar(thunder), talks to
herself in her home in a one day and says some simple
but meaningful sentences which reveal the purpose of the
film. At the end of the film you can’t be sure whether
the killing of the husband has really occurred or it’s
only a delusion which exsists in Tondar’s mind. Maybe
like many wives who plan for killing their husband from
the morning to night. From the moment their husbands
leave the house to work and earn a good income, the
wives kill them and bury them in their minds for one
thousand times and all of this happen only in their
fancy, in their minds. But at night, when their husband
return home, the wives serve them, feed them and sleep
with them till morning and this is the way which wives
have chosen to cope with their husband.
M. Majdzadeh
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Director's comments about
the film " World War IV"
It seems that all the
world is waiting for the third world war; the war which
will destroy many parts of the world and kill so many
people all over the world. Most people think that new
weapons such as atomic bombs will cause such a
catastrophe but I think that new destroyer is a more
dangerous and more fatal enemy: AIDS or HIV virus. The
film “4th World War” is based on a true
story. This film tries to reveal this fact that many
peaple who are affected with HIV, use it as a weapon to
take their revenge on the other people or sometimes use
it as an implement by which they awake others and make
them aware of their faults. In the story of this film,
we don’t have good characters and bad characters. The
story just tells that “situation” can change the
people’s destiny. Let me put it in this way: Good people
turn bad in bad situation and bad people turn good in
good situation. Thus at the end of the film, we don’t
know what will become of the woman; will she change or .
. . and the man who has been pitied by the woman, faces
an unusual and complicated situation. Anyway, by means
of this film, I only tried to uncover the existing facts
in Iran in the current time about AIDS and the way
people confront and counteract it. Probably the
essential problem in Iran is that women are playing the
main roll in transmitting the HIV virus. Ofcourse men
can transmit the virus as well and what has added to the
problem is that today, even married men are willing to
have affairs with other women.
So in this country,
there are many cases like the one we see in “4th
World War”.
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