San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2013

[Chris Knipp]

Dan Shadur: Before the Revolution (2013)

A family album, with supporting testimony of former officials, about the halcyon colonial days for Israelis when their country was, like the US, chummy with the Shah, and a large Israeli community lived in Tehran in luxury, blind to the atrocities of Savak, the disappeared ones, and the prevailing poverty and discontent. They fled reluctantly, and almost too late, when the revolution came in 1979. The filmmaker was only a baby when his family escaped.