Madare sefr darajeh (The Zero Degree Turn)

Infobox Television
show_name = Madare sefr darajeh
The Zero Degree Turn /
مدار صفر درجه/



caption = Shahab Hosseini, Madare sefr darajeh
format = Political, Romance, Historical
language = Persian
French
German
runtime = Each episode approximately 50 minutes
creator = Hassan Fathi
developer =
executive_producer = Hassan Beshkoufeh
starring = Shahab Hosseini
Nathalie Matti
Roya Teymourian
Masoud Raigan
Pierre Dagher
Laya Zanganeh
Iraj Rad
Atheneh Faghih Nassiri
Payam Dehkordi
Rahim Noroozi
Farrokh Nemati
Esmail Shangaleh
Fadi Edward
Hasmiq Taschgian
Ahmad Saatchian
Ali Qorbanzadeh
Kioomars Malek Motiei
narrated =
opentheme =
endtheme = (vaghti ke man ashegh shodam)
country = flagicon|IranIran
flagicon|Hungary Hungary
flagicon|France France
flagicon|Lebanon Lebanon
network = Channel 1 (Iran)
first_aired = April 23, 2007
last_aired = November, 2007
num_episodes = 30
website = http://tv1.irib.ir/barnameha/sharhefilm.asp?code=0011109036106
imdb_id =
tv_com_id =

Madare sefr darajeh (in Persian : "مدار صفر درجه" , in English : The Zero Degree Turn) is a 2007 television series, made through the cooperation of Iran, Hungary, France and Lebanon. The program was one of most expensive and elaborate ever produced by Iran and attracted a large audience there. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1127/p01s06-wome.html?page=2 In hit Iranian TV drama, Holocaust no 'myth'] ]

Plot

Set in the time of the Second World War, "Madare sefr darajeh" follows the life of an Iranian student named "Habib Parsa" (Shahab Hosseini) who travels to Paris to study. There Habib meets a French Jewish woman named Sarah Struk, a student at the same university. At first antagonistic toward one another, Habib and Sarah eventually fall in love. They run into many problems, including persecution by the Nazis and by Sarah's Zionist uncle, but are united in the end. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1127/p01s06-wome.html?page=2 In hit Iranian TV drama, Holocaust no 'myth'] ]

Opinions about

The government financed film has been widely cited as an effort by the government to demonstrate its positions in regards to the difference between Jews and ZionistsFact|date=January 2008, encompassing sympathy for the Jewish peopleFact|date=January 2008 (including an orthodoxFact|date=January 2008 view of the Holocaust) while remaining hostile to Zionism. [Citation
last = Fassihi
first = Farnaz
title = Iran's Unlikely TV Hit
journal = The Wall Street Journal
pages = B1
date = September 7, 2007
url = http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118912609718220156-Z0Iy3Ywp9pUdzCdCgf_4JU5QzP4_20071006.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
accessdate = September 17, 2007]

The director of the series, Hassan Fathi, said about it, "I decided to produce this series in 2002, and in those days the Holocaust was not an issue. Even if one single Jew is killed in German camps, the world should be ashamed. By the same token, if a single Palestinian dies, the world should be ashamed. I sympathize with the Jewish victims of World War II, to the same extent with women and children victims of the war in Palestine." [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1127/p01s06-wome.html?page=2 In hit Iranian TV drama, Holocaust no 'myth'] ]

References

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7119474.stm Iran Holocaust drama is a big hit] - BBC News - Friday, 30 November 2007
*cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411411609&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |title=Iran launches Holocaust miniseries | Jerusalem Post |accessdate=2007-09-30
*cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/866562.html |title=Iran retells the story of Nazis and Israel on state television - Haaretz - Israel News |accessdate=2007-09-30
*cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3448022,00.html |title='Zero Degree Turn': An Iranian soap opera - Israel Culture, Ynetnews |accessdate=2007-09-30
*cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411392536&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |title=Editor's Notes: Global amnesia | Jerusalem Post |accessdate=2007-09-30
*cite web |url=http://justworldnews.org/archives/002636.html |title='Just World News' with Helena Cobban: An Iranian Schindler's List: "Zero Degree Turn" |accessdate=2007-09-30
*cite web |url=http://tv1.irib.ir/barnameha/sharhefilm.asp?code=0011109036106|title=Downloadable episodes in Persian | accessdate=2007-09-30
*cite web |url=http://international-music-and-software-advisory.googlegroups.com/web/AlirezaGhorbani-Madare0Daraje.mp3?gda=8CVbElIAAACCgdD-wezqWmCfolKPyP_fhkQLCeYT-nf7qf0CiC_kv2G1qiJ7UbTIup-M2XPURDSFGIWLu1_O2o3cgg4MMLm-1ayOErMNYdovh0Fiic9DOKqCFFYdL-3n8ydetq5JJMA | title=You can listen to the end titrage music of "Madare Sefr Darajeh" here | hosted by: jim cornell | accessdate=2007-10-12
*cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jKZkflmGes |title=Watch 10 minutes of first episode | accessdate=2007-11-11
*cite web |url=http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118912609718220156-Z0Iy3Ywp9pUdzCdCgf_4JU5QzP4_20071006.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top |title=Iran's Unlikely TV Hit |accessdate=2007-12-02