Mohammad Rasoulof Reveals How He Covertly Made ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’, Risking His Life And His Freedom
deadline.comThere’s a funny phrase in Hollywood — ‘director’s jail’ — that gets thrown around whenever a filmmaker finds their career in stasis after making a particularly high-profile flop.
Reputations are certainly tarnished. Some go into television instead, and some never get back in the saddle. But, so far, no one there has ever been to jail for moviemaking.
Not even in the paranoid early ’50s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee waged war on active Communist Party members, particularly those working in the liberal arts.
In Iran, though, incarceration is a very real threat, as director Mohammad Rasoulof knows all too well. The director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig — now Germany’s official submission for Best International Feature Film — Rasoulof caused a stir earlier this year when his film, his 10th, was selected for Cannes.
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