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An anthology of four stories following the lives of individuals confronted with an unfathomable choice and a set of immediate consequences: to follow orders and execute the death sentence or to refuse and suffer the repercussions. An urgent narrative inspired by real-life events from the filmmaker’s own experience, There Is No Evil questions the possibility of individual freedom in the confinements of a tyrannical regime. While Mohammad Rasoulof’s sixth feature has earned him the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Iranian authorities have censored the film and sentenced him to one year in prison for “propaganda against the system”.
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Cast:
Ehsan Mirhosseini, Shaghayegh Shourian, Kaveh Ahangar, Mahtab Servati, Baran Rasoulof -
Original Title:
Sheytân vojūd nadârad -
Country:
Iran, Germany, Czech Republic -
Year:
2020 - 150’ Subtitles: Portuguese
Director
Mohammad Rasoulof
Mohammad Rasoulof (1973, Iran) is an independent filmmaker. He studied sociology at Shiraz University, and film editing at Sooreh Higher Education Institute in Tehran. He made six short films in the period 1991-1999. His first feature, The Twilight, was released in 2002. On December 20, 2010, he was sentenced by the Iranian government to six years in prison on charges of ‘assembly, collusion, and propagandizing against the regime’. The sentence was later reduced to a conditional sentence of one year and a ban on making films.
