Sufi, Saint and Swinger
© Lloyd Miller, Openvizor
Synopsis
The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by his country upon his return after the Iranian revolution.
Over images of a young boy playing the accordion in a home movie from 1940’s America, a radio host comments on the trial that was to ruin Lloyd Miller´s life decades later in the Eighties – for charges he was innocent of.
The images of the young boy are quickly replaced with images of an Iranian TV show from the 1970’s, where a sharply dressed man named Kurosh Ali Khan is being interviewed in Farsi about his musical creation, Oriental Jazz. Music kicks in, and now we see the man presented in a video, much younger, playing the santur, a Persian instrument, accompanied by jazz. A voice begins to narrate, in the third person, the story of Kurosh, an American man who is forced by political circumstances to leave the country he’s considered his only real home for seven years. He is on his way back to America, leaving his life as a famous TV host behind him.
http://www.sufisaintswinger.com
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 71 mins
- Format
- HD
- Director
- Camilla French, Andres Borda
- Producer
- Abbas Nokhasteh
- Co-Producer
- Camilla French, Andres Borda
- Executive Producer
- Abbas Nokhasteh
- Editor
- Camilla French, Andres Borda
- Director of Photography
- Camilla French, Andres Borda
- Music
- Lloyd Miller
- Film Title Note
- Film title should read - Sufi, Saint & Swinger
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 17th February 2019
