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Title Taq Kasra : wonder of architecture / a documentary by Pejman Akbarzadeh
Published Netherlands : Persian Dutch Network, 2018
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Description 1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
Summary "Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture" is the first-ever documentary film on the world's largest brickwork vault. The palace is the symbol of the Persian Empire in the Sasanian era (224-651 AD), when a major part of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) was part of Persia (Iran). Taq Kasra was in serious danger of ISIS attacks in 2015-2016 and this was the main motivation for documentary maker Pejman Akbarzadeh to travel to Iraq twice and film the arch before it was potentially destroyed. The film explores the history and architecture of Taq-i Kisra (also known as Arch of Ctesiphon) with respected archaeologists and scholars from around the world and portrays the huge impact of war and ideological policies on the identity of this ancient monument
Notes The following scholars have been interviewed in the film: Hossein Amanat (Persian-Canadian architect), Prof. Ed Keall (Former director of Royal Ontario Museum's Near Eastern Department), Prof. Touraj Daryaee (Director of Jordan Center for Persian Studies, Univ. of California), Dr. Ute Franke (State Museums of Berlin), Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh-Curtis (British Museum), Dr. Ali Mozaffari (Australian Research Council, Deakin Univ.), Dr. Mahmoud Mullakhalaf (Iraqi Ambassador to UNESCO), Dr. Qais Huseen Rasheed (Head of Iraqi State Board of Antiquities), Dr. Miroslav Zeman (ProjektyZeman, Prague),Prof. Robert Hillenbrand (University Of Edinburgh)
Credits Director and writer, Pejman Akbarzadeh ; film editor, Arash Rezaeimehr
Performer Casts, Ed Keall, Vesta Sarkhosh-Curtis, Ute Franke-Vogt, Touraj Daryaee, Ali Mozaffari, Qais Huseen Rasheed, Miroslav Zeman, Mahmoud Al-Mullakhalaf, Robert Hillenbrand
Notes DVD
In Engish, Persian, Arabic, Czech, German with subtitles in English
Subject Vaults (Architecture) -- Iraq
Arches -- Iraq
Architecture, Sassanid -- Iraq
Author Akbarzādah, Pizhmān, director, screenwriter
Rezaeimehr, Arash, editor of moving image
Persian Dutch Network, production company