He’s been jailed, poisoned, banned and bombed. But film-maker Mohsen
Makhmalbaf won’t stop asking tough questions. As The President, his new
satire about a toppled dictator living in disguise, goes on release, the
exiled Iranian explains why oppressed people are also to blame for
tyranny
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
THE GUARDIAN - AUGUST 10, 2015
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is fidgeting in his seat. “In the cinema,” he says,
“I tend to drive people next to me insane. I can’t sit on my ass. I have
to constantly move.” Over lunch, in this top-floor restaurant
overlooking St Paul’s cathedral in London, he changes seats twice.
Makhmalbaf, one of Iran’s most prominent directors, is restless by
nature. Constantly thinking of new ideas, endlessly curious about the
world, he has made a film and written a book every year since 1981. In
his home by the Thames, he has a stack of two dozen scripts on standby.
He is by no means short of story ideas.
His latest film, The President, which premiered at Venice last year
and is out in the UK next week, is a dark satire following the life of a
despot and his six-year-old grandson as they flee from revolutionaries.
Disguising himself as a street musician, the president, played by Misha
Gomiashvilli, begins to learn about the people he oppressed.
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