Freedom and Other Maladies (آزادی و دیگر رنج‌ها)

Overview

Gholam-Hossein Saedi was an acclaimed Iranian author, playwright and screenwriter with an oeuvre that contains more than thirty publications. Freedom And Other Maladies depicts Saedi's restless passion and heartbroken demise based on letters that he wrote over the years as well as interviews with his close friends and associates. The documentary film focuses on the last four years of Saedi's life in Paris, at the peak of his suffering, painfully aware that he would die in exile.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi

himself (footage archive)

Reza Aghnami

Bahman Amini

self

Ali Badri

self

Mohammad Jalai Chimeh

self

Hedayat Matin Daftari

self

Soheila Ghassemlou

self

Manouchehr Hezarkhani

self