Takhti | Jahan Pahlevan Takhti (1997)

Synopsis

Ali Hatami's film on the life of Iranian wrestling champion Takhti remains unfinished. Another director is assigned to finish the project.

The new director wants to carry out research on the life of the champion, and it would seem that he will have to solve numerous problems before he can finish the job..

Young director "Behrooz Afkhami" is contacted to finish the movie about the most beloved Iranian wrestler "Gholamreza Takhti" which Mr. Ali Hatami had started but could not finish due to his unexpected death.



During his research, the director finds out that there are still a lot of questions about the death of Takhti ! Was it murder by Savak agents or suicide? Lots of never seen before video clips of Takhti.

Cast: Fariborz Arabnia, Niki Karimi, Mohammadreza Sharifinia, Fathali Oveisi, Jamshid Gorgin, Afsaneh Bayegan, Ahmad Najafi, Khosro Nezafat Doost, Ezzatolah Entezami, Zahra Hatami, Mahmoud Kalari, Turaj Mansuri, Akbar Moazezi, Fatemah Motamed-Arya, Saeed Poursamimi, Babak Takhti 

Director's View

"It is unbelievable, but nevertheless true, that 30 years after Gholamreza Takhti's death, and two decades after the Islamic Revolution, no serious, official investigation has been conducted on the circumstances of the death of the shy, introvert world champion.

Any inquisitive researcher faces in the beginning stages with a walls of indifference, preconceptions, oblivion and willful suppression of information.

Takhti's life and death are still regarded in many ways as political issues, and thus it is concluded that truth could be sacrificed for the sake of expediency.

Making a movie on Takhti was for me a way of going back to the days of documentary film making. I tries to understand how he had really lived and died, not how he is supposed to have lived and died."

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Country: Iran
Language: Farsi
Color: Color
Runtime: 100 min.