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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305773955
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC
ISBN: 6305773955
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: March 28, 2000
Running Time: 71 minutes
Sales Rank: 36719
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1925
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Description:
A classic adventure by the makers of 'King Kong.' In 1924, neophyte filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack hooked up with journalist and sometime spy Marguerite Harrison and set off to film an adventure. They found excitement, danger and unparalleled drama in the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia (now Iran). Twice a year, more than 50,000 people and half a million animals surmounted seemingly impossible obstacles to take their herds to pasture. The filmmakers captured unforgettable images of courage and determination as the Bakhtiari braved the raging and icy waters of the half-mile-wide Karun River. Cooper and Schoedsack almost froze when they filmed the breathtaking, almost unbelievable, sight of an endless river of men, women and children--their feet bare or wrapped in rags--winding up the side of the sheer, snow-covered rock face of the 15,000-foot-high Zardeh Kuh mountain.
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Everyone I've shown this movie to was breathless with amazement, and this covers a 5 year old to a 90 year old (my son and father). Really two films, the first part shows the trek of the makers east across Turkey in 1925, with little vignettes to get to know the area. "Highway patrol" on camel-back. Hunting a wild goat with an ancient gun and incredible skill. A "camel-stop" not unlike a truck stop.
Then you meet the tribe, a mobile city of people and their animals, which they seem ... Read More
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The fact that the subject of this amazing film took place during my lifetime is awesome. The human spirit and determination and courage are seldom displayed so dramatically.
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I could have done without the first 20 or so minutes of this silent film documentary which presented the camera crew's journey from Constantinople to the mountain foothills in Iran. Those scenes felt heavily edited and seemed tame compared to what the Bakhtiari tribesmen were going to go thru in the balance of the movie.
The remaining 50 minutes or so flew by as I watched these nomads with their pack animals and herds cross an icy river, climb the precipitous slopes of a mountain, cross ... Read More
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This is one of the most important films ever made about tribal nomadic life, and the rigors of the filmmaking process make it all the more astonishing. The film does practice a bit of romanticism that was completely unnecessary. It pretends that the Bakhtiari tribe are making their migration as a one-time desperate bid for survival. In fact the Bakhtiari make this 250 km. journey twice every year, and they are still doing it, though they now do some of it by road. The film is inspiring, breath-taking ... Read More
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You absolutely, positively MUST see this movie. Marion C. Cooper, director of the original (1930's) King Kong & two other Americans filmed this incredible exodus in 1927. With heavy, old camera equipment. In the winter. In the mountains of Iran. By foot and mule. And their subjects are utterly awe inspiring.
I first saw this silent, B&W documentary in 2005. I was right in the middle of packing for a huge, draining household move from the mountains of New Mexico to Texas. My husband ... Read More
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