It’s now exactly a year since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was released from her six-year detention in Iran, and we all know the relatively happy ending to her ordeal and that of her family. What we certainly do not know, however, is precisely how she and her loved ones coped, suffered and persevered through the mental torture of indefinite containment.
Channel 4’s new documentary, Nazanin, vividly conveys that tension in a way that is raw and sometimes almost unbearable to witness, but watch it we do because we want to “be there” when it dissolves. Because the filmmaker Darius Bazargan and his team spent so much time filming with Nazanin’s family and her tirelessly campaigning husband Richard, and has been able to use previously unseen smartphone video recordings by Nazanin herself, it is almost as if we are there with them.
This is a very intimate piece of storytelling,...
Channel 4’s new documentary, Nazanin, vividly conveys that tension in a way that is raw and sometimes almost unbearable to witness, but watch it we do because we want to “be there” when it dissolves. Because the filmmaker Darius Bazargan and his team spent so much time filming with Nazanin’s family and her tirelessly campaigning husband Richard, and has been able to use previously unseen smartphone video recordings by Nazanin herself, it is almost as if we are there with them.
This is a very intimate piece of storytelling,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Sean O'Grady
- The Independent - TV
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- 3/18/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
A documentary going behind the scenes on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s six-year ordeal is coming to Channel 4
The U.K. broadcaster has commissioned a single documentary, entitled “Nazanin,” from filmmaker and journalist Darius Bazargan. The project claims to give “the definitive exclusive access into one of biggest international news stories of the last 6 years,” and follows Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard and his family as he campaigns to bring his wife Nazanin home from detention in Iran.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe returned to England this week after six years of detention in Iran, where she was imprisoned after being convicted of unspecified “national security-related” crimes in 2016. Her detention is believed to have been in direct response to an unpaid £400 million debt owed by the U.K. government to Iran, which has now been paid.
The doc will reveal the “inner-workings” of the real-life drama for Richard Ratcliffe, who launched a very public campaign — including...
The U.K. broadcaster has commissioned a single documentary, entitled “Nazanin,” from filmmaker and journalist Darius Bazargan. The project claims to give “the definitive exclusive access into one of biggest international news stories of the last 6 years,” and follows Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard and his family as he campaigns to bring his wife Nazanin home from detention in Iran.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe returned to England this week after six years of detention in Iran, where she was imprisoned after being convicted of unspecified “national security-related” crimes in 2016. Her detention is believed to have been in direct response to an unpaid £400 million debt owed by the U.K. government to Iran, which has now been paid.
The doc will reveal the “inner-workings” of the real-life drama for Richard Ratcliffe, who launched a very public campaign — including...
- 3/18/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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