Rare photos of persian artists before revolution

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Before the 1979 revolution, the clerics in homelnd rejected cinema, or at best ignored it. Films were among the forms of art considered forbidden and for many pious families going to the cinema was tantamount to committing a sin. The main reason for this was that cinematic representations of women and love upset the delicate dualism which had long attended these topics in persian culture.

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