Director: Anthony Mayer
Release: 1976
Genre: Documentary
Screening September 11th, 3:30pm The Crossroads of Civilization is an eight-part history of the Ancient Persia which dramatized battles and sieges on a Hollywood scale, but carried out on the remote original locations. This was a project that needed panache as well as creativity. Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco is proud to have discovered and will show this jewel, which was made in Iran with a budget of 2.5 million dollars in 1976 by Sir David Frost. It will have its world premiere after 35 years to give a sense of Persian history and a unique opportunity to see this lost and forgotten documentary for the first time.
