Az Karkheh ta Rhein

From Karkheh to Rhein (Persian: از کرخه تا راین‎ Az Karkheh ta Rhein)^[1] is a 1992 Iranian film directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia.

Plot

Saeed, is an Iran–Iraq war victim who has headed to Germany for his eyesight treatment, comes across his sister, Leila, who has lived in Cologne with her husband and son, Jonas for many years. Saeed gets his sight back after the surgery and he is coped with the new and strange atmosphere around him. Saeed is getting ready to come back to Iran but everything goes wrong. Further examinations show that he suffers from leukemia. His disease has apparently resulted from chemical gases used by Iraq in the war. When Saeed’s sister finds out about his disease, she tries to prevent any situation which will cause him stress, as the doctors advised. But Saeed becomes very ill when he watches the video of the funeral of Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, which was recorded by his brother in law. So, they take him to the hospital and he dies there while doing chemotherapy. This happens while Saeed’s wife and his newly born baby are coming to Germany to meet him. The last scene of the film shows that the family of Saeed’s sister is going back to Iran with his wife. ^[2]

Cast

• Ali Dehkordi as Saeed
• Homa Rusta as Leila
• Heinz Neumann as Leila's Husband
• Asghar Naghizadeh as Basiji
• Sadegh Safayi as Basiji
• Farzaneh Asgari
• Parviz Sheikhtadi
• Noorbert Hanzing
• Nikel Gril
• Andreas Kurtz
• Majid Safavi

Soundtrack

The music of the film was written and performed by Iranian composer Majid Entezami who later had collaboration with Hatamikia in The Glass Agency and Booy-e Pirahan-e Yousef.

See also

• Karkheh, a river in Khuzestan Province, which was affected the most during the war
• Disabled Iranian veterans

References

External links

• Az Karkheh ta Rhein in IMDb