Examining the documentary that dealt with the August 28 coup

According to the news reporter of Fars News Agency, the 29th episode of “Cinema Critic” program aired last night on August 27 on Chahar Sima channel.

Amirreza Mafi, the host of the program, first stated: Last week, we encountered the Shahcheragh terrorist incident. Regardless of the security and media aspects of this incident, it had a hero, the one who ran and was able to pin down the terrorist. We must honor the heroes. We must be very careful not to distort the image of the heroes by frequent and tasteless use. These people are figures that we can benefit from their behavior and character for a long time and narrate it to the people of our country. If we hurry and want to introduce people quickly, it might lose its long-term function.

He continued: Repeating an image and repeatedly referring to a hero may make it normal in the minds of the audience. Characters like our hero in Shahcheragh Shrine are the ones that we can use in documentary and fiction films. We must be careful what the first images that are transmitted from them are.

The host of the program went on to say: August 28 is the 70th anniversary of the American-British coup against Dr. Mossadegh’s government. The August 28 coup is a turning point in Iran’s contemporary history; Where the Americans tried their best to directly interfere in the fate of the Iranian people. This kind of coup and this kind of behavior in the American government has been seen many times in the last century.

The first part of the program was dedicated to the Iranian cinema table, where film journalist Mohammad Saberi and documentary maker Mohammad Reza Imamqoli talked about the documentary “Coup 53” directed by Taghi Amirani.

Mohammad Saberi first stated: One of the aspects of successful and exciting documentaries is designing their framework based on a question. It means that the documentary maker has designed a question before answering and then went to the subject. This is a key and important point. This happened in a more special and brilliant way in the documentary “Coup d’53”, which means that Taghi Amirani spent 11 years questioning his mind, which is not a small amount of time, and a completely dramatic narrative was created, and this is considered the winning card of the documentary. .

He continued: This winning card is reflected in this documentary both in terms of form and in terms of content, even though the August 28 coup has become a cliché and we feel that due to the relevance of the topics in the media space, it is different in different dimensions. We are familiar with it, when we come across the documentary, it constantly surprises us and raises points that we feel can raise new points about this historical issue that has been raised many times.

He emphasized: The distinguishing feature of the “Coup 53” documentary compared to similar experiences is the raising of new questions. That is, the point of departure of the documentary to the world of documents is a new question that has formed in the mind of the documentary maker and then a capacity that has become a dramatic work. Taghi Amirani’s documentary is a documentary and journalism class in investigative journalism.

Furthermore, in response to the question of how true the documentary “Coup 53” is, Mohammadreza Imamogholi, the documentary maker, said: “It’s been a long time since no one has said anything new about the coup and the events leading up to the coup.” I also include this criticism in my own documentary, “Mr. Prime Minister”. What happened in my documentary is that a number of eyewitnesses talk about the events they saw themselves, and the people who were themselves activists of the nationalization of the oil industry at that time, sat in the critical position.

He continued: We are facing the problem of finding a new document about the “53 Coup” documentary. This story is a repeated story that we are facing in the last one or two decades. This work narrates the fight between England and America about which one had a greater role in the coup. In my opinion, the documentary maker’s problem is to raise new information about who is behind the coup. It also seems that the documentary maker has no doubt that a coup has taken place.

This documentary maker stated: The origin of the hostilities and fights between the Iranian people and the American government is from the coup. At some point, many people suggested that the origin of the fight started from the capture of the spy den, and there was a lot of discussion about this issue, but the fact is that American activists are aware of the fact that the story started in America.

In the end, Imam Qoli noted: The narrative that happened in the documentary “Coup 53” is new, and in terms of typology, we are facing a reflective documentary. We had a cognitive error about the August 28 coup that led us to jump to the answer. This is also clearly visible among speakers and movie critics. In fact, without referring to written documents and library research, we want to announce the result quickly, and we cannot make a conclusion with a film.

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