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DVD ~ Merian C. Cooper
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  • Actors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan, Lufta
  • Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • Writers: Richard Carver, Terry Ramsaye
  • Producers: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Silent, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Image Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Mar 2000
  • Run Time: 71 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305773955
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 34,397 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary footage from a disappearing world, 19 May 2006
By Angus J. Mcdowall "Angus McDowall" (London) - See all my reviews
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An extraordinary 70-minute film that provides a dazzling visual insight into the Middle East before the motor car, national borders and centralised states changed the region forever.

Travelling the silk-road from central Anatolia, the three film-makers journey by cart, horse and foot through the mountains of Kurdistan and the Iraqi desert to the winter pastures of the Bakhtiari tribe in Khouzestan. On the way they film a Turkish caravanserei, a Kurd hunting wild goat in the mountains and an Arab mounted-police patrol setting off from their desert castle.

But the real story starts with the Bakhtiari, meeting the chief Haidar and his son Lufta, as they plan their journey to the high summer pastures. Highlights are the crossing of the Karun - cold and swollen by melt-water - on inflated goat-skin rafts and the bare-foot ascent of a snow-bound 12,000-foot mountain pass.

When you see people throwing themselves into a broad, raging river with a herd of sheep, or carrying a mule on their backs over a mountian, you really start to understand some of the things the history books cannot convey about a world that has recently died but lived for millenia.

The captions - made in 1925 it is a silent film - tell their own story of contemporary Western style and attitudes towards history and ethnography. The Bakhtiari are presented as the early fathers of an Aryan race that the film makers prize as their own. Their migration is portrayed as a distant part of the progression of Europeans Westwards through America.

Having spent several years living in the Middle East and exploring parts of Turkey, Iran and the Arab world, this film helped put flesh on the bones of the past.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A breathtaking trek worth taking twice (on your couch), 14 Sep 2007
By John Eyon "Little Raven" (Seattle - USA) - See all my reviews
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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 its snowy summit before descending into a warm valley of pasture lands for their herds. It was an incredible glimpse of a vanishing lifestyle. The only defect in my view was the use jokey title cards (eg, "Brrr", "Brrr" when crossing the chilly river) ruining my sense of involvement.

50 years later, in 1976, another documentary, this time in color, would once again follow these people in equally fascinating detail. That film was called PEOPLE OF THE WIND. I recommend seeing both since each gives some details that the other doesn't.

(According to Wikipedia, as of 2006 a small percentage of Bakhtiari still made the journey -- but with transport for the herds and they didn't go barefoot in the snow.)
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