Holocaust Drama A Big Hit…In Iran
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007BBC News reports that the current big hit on Iranian television is a holocaust drama. And yes, the program does acknowledge that the holocaust did happen:
The central character is an Iranian diplomat, who provides false Iranian passports to enable Jews to flee the Nazi-occupied France, a sort of the Iranian Schindler. He even has a love affair with a Jewish woman.
The writer and director of the series, Hassan Fathi, says he used a true story from World War II to show the outside world they have the wrong impression of Iran.
“In those terrible years there were many people who could help the Jews, but they didn’t because they were afraid they would be arrested,” Mr Fathi explains.
“But some Iranians, when they saw they could save some Jews, they left their fear behind and did so - because of their character and their culture, their beliefs and their traditions,” he adds.