“Midnight Nightmare” is a documentary about fighting against the distortion of history / when they did not see the king!

Fars News Agency – Radio and Television Group: The documentary series “Midnight Nightmare” is produced by Andisheh Shahid Avini Cultural and Artistic Institute and the Culture, History and Art Group of One Sima Network. This documentary, with a historical narrative from a research perspective, seeks to show the days leading up to the ousted Shah’s death.

This documentary series is written and directed by “Ali Arezi” and produced by “Mohammad Amin Rasouli” and narrates the displacement of the Shah in the historical period from December 17, 1978 to August 26, 1980.

The documentary series “Midnight Nightmare”, which is based on documents left over from the memoirs of political figures of the Pahlavi era and the Shah’s entourage, and using video archives, seeks to present a true narrative of the shattered times of a person who considers himself a power He knew better.

The serial documentary “Midnight Nightmare” is a visual narrative from the day when people happily took the headlines of “Shah Raft” newspaper to chase the Shah’s irreversible escape from Tehran to Egypt until the day when the death stamp is engraved on the fate of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Became; The path that was a souvenir of 550 days of displacement.

This historical documentary will be broadcast on Fridays at 11:15 PM on the One Sima network.

** Adjective: We have narrated the story of the Shah’s disappearance

In this regard, “Ali Arezi”; The author and director of the documentary “Midnight Nightmare”, referring to his concern for making works related to contemporary history, said: “This subject was obtained based on our research, and due to the lack of production of such works, we tried to finish Let’s pay attention to the life of the deposed king. In this documentary, we will see how the Shah was ignored by the leaders of those countries, contrary to what he imagined, and in spite of the various gifts he bestowed on Western countries.

Emphasizing the authenticity of the information in the documentary, he added: “We had a strange insistence on referring to real documents and not paying attention to some unreliable statements or writings.” From this point of view, the script we wrote and the documentary we made are quite real. In this documentary, we show the Shah’s 7 journeys from the time of his escape from Iran to the time of his death, which begins in Egypt and then is exiled to Morocco, the Bahamas, Mexico, the United States, Panama, and finally back to Egypt. We will deal with it in 6 parts. Of course, the images related to that period are very few and it was difficult to get the desired images for the documentary.

Arezi added: The second characteristic is that we refer more to the statements of the first circle of the second Pahlavi. There are also writings left by foreign writers or people around Mohammad Reza Shah who have spoken and written about him that we used in the documentary. We did not interfere in history at all. From Assadollah Alam and Ardeshir Zahedi to the Shah’s physician have information about him. Part of the video archive is also based on interviews conducted by Harvard University with the Shah’s relatives at the time. Part of the archive was from unused traces of a documentary called The Death of a King. All these documents show that this documentary was prepared far from any bias to show the truth.

Regarding the need to make works on the contemporary history of Iran, the director said: “The Persian-language opposition media, which have not been established for a long time, regularly document these issues and present their desired narrative of history at great expense.” This distortion may lead to a different view of the audience. When we are silent and the enemy shows the same thing in a different way, this wrong narrative prevails! In fact, by not telling the truth, it is a lie that shows itself. They show the truth completely upside down by spending a lot of money and with the media device they have. He continued: “In recent years, we have seen how a current wants to purify Pahlavi in ​​some way.” However, there are many unseen points about Pahlavi history and the truth is something else.

** Rasouli: Anyone can show the truth from the heart of the pictures

“Mohammad Amin Rasouli”; The producer of the documentary “Midnight Nightmare” also said in this interview about the conditions of the documentary production: “Based on the research that was done, we went ahead and invited people who could help us technically to the project.” I think a producer should be able to equip the director and think about production problems by equipping the facilities and creating the right conditions so that the producer only thinks about the quality of his work and does not get involved in production issues.

In response to the importance of making historical documentaries, he said: “In my opinion, considering the valuable treasure we have and especially the photographs of our country’s political history, it is possible to produce different works from different angles.” We already have a lot of information and resources to work with. There is a very strong photo archive about that time, and it’s unfortunate if these available resources are not used properly. Several groups should do productions in this field. Because each mind looks at the subject with a different idea. That’s why this route has no limits to work with, and anyone can tell the truth from the heart of the images.

Rasouli continued: “Apart from the documented historical discussion, we can also look at the lesson of the story, for example, how the Shah, after all his loyalty and service to the Westerners, was ignored by them and turned his back on him.” This practice is still used today and can be instructive for the future. While some may still look positively at the time and practice, history tells us what the fate of the Shah and his allies was.

The producer of the documentary “Midnight Nightmare” said: “I think this documentary has a new look at the story, and it is very good that new views come to the stage so that the variety can be shown to the audience with the variety of productions, because the documentary can be based on storytelling.” Which has to be attractive and entertaining for the audience.

The 6-part series “Midnight Nightmare” produced by Andisheh Shahid Avini Art and Cultural Institute and the Culture, History and Art Group of One Sima Channel will be broadcast on Fridays at 11:15 PM on One Sima Channel.

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