Baktash Abtin: Another Iranian Filmmaker Died Of His Struggle For Freedom
March 2022
Iranian poet and filmmaker Mehdi Kazemi, also known as Baktash Abtin, dedicated his life to depicting Iranian society with realism and humour. Realism of this type, however, was intolerable in the eyes of the Iranian regime, which favours a Soviet-style “people’s paradise” vision of what is, in fact, a very troubled country
March 2022