The Yellow Curtain

In the 1970s Iran seemingly had everything US President Jimmy Carter called it an island of stability in a visit Yet only two years later in the winter of 1979 a revolution occurred The Shah of Iran was overthrown and the Islamic Republic was established It was a major change a complete switch of power THE YELLOW CURTAIN interweaves the stories of three men around this sensitive time in historypersecuted Persian author Gholamhossein Saedi one of his fictional characters Mansour and the filmmakers own grandfather who worked directly under the Shah Through a poetic blending of literature and cinema the film examines many lives turned upside down and in one rare case a life turned right side up