Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture
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Directed byPejman Akbarzadeh
Produced byPersian Dutch Network (Funded by Soudavar Memorial and Toos Foundation)
Edited byArash Rezaeimehr
Music byMohammad Shams
| Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture | |
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 Documentary premiere at SOAS, London | |
| Directed by | Pejman Akbarzadeh |
| Produced by | Persian Dutch Network (Funded by Soudavar Memorial and Toos Foundation) |
| Edited by | Arash Rezaeimehr |
| Music by | Mohammad Shams |
| Distributed by | Persian Dutch Network |
Release date |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Languages | English Persian German Czech Iraqi Arabic |
Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture is a 2018 documentary film on the world's largest brick vault, Taq Kasra. It is the first film about this ancient Persian monument,[1] directed by Pejman Akbarzadeh.
Taq Kasra was in danger of being destroyed by ISIS in 2015 - 2016, and this inspired Pejman Akbarzadeh to visit Iraq twice to film the arch and record its history.[2]
The following scholars have been interviewed in the film[3]
- Hossein Amanat (Persian-Canadian architect)
- Prof. Ed Keall (Former director of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Near Eastern Department)
- Prof. Touraj Daryaee (Director of Jordan Center for Persian Studies, Univ. of California)
- Dr. Ute Franke (State Museums of Berlin)
- Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (British Museum)
- Dr. Ali Mozaffari (Australian Research Council, Deakin Univ.)
- Dr. Mahmoud Mullakhalaf (Iraqi Ambassador to UNESCO)
- Dr. Qais Huseen Rasheed (Head of Iraqi State Board of Antiquities)
- Dr. Miroslav Zeman (ProjektyZeman, Prague)
- Prof. Robert Hillenbrand (University Of Edinburgh)
The 30-minute documentary is filmed in Iraq, Persia/Iran, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, and the United States.