Islamic Revolution cinema | The Glassy Flower (part two)

[Coolnar13]

This is such a heartbreaking short film, it gets me everyyy time, regardless of the manyyy times I have seen it! May Allah swt bless all the Martyrs of Islam & may He instill such a dire desire in us to genuinely fight for His cause and ways inshAllah

[MuslimahSisterMaryam]

Bismillah. Assalamu alaykum wr wb . InshAllah I just wanted to ask if it would be possible to have a copy of this film as I would like, inshAllah, to make a short film commenting on this film and the significance as I see it with relation to the events of Karbala. The video would be submitted for The International Ashura Film Festival (please see Ahlulbayt TV for more information regarding the Film Festival) . InshAllah please email me feedback. Shukanlillah.Sisterly salams . Sister Maryam.

[Bertolt147]

Hi. Do you who is the producer of this movie?

It's amazingly meaningful

[germanicus24]

@Bertolt147 Its director and writer was Behzad Behzadpour, and its chief producer was Javad Norouzbeigi at Soureh. Glad you liked it! :)

[lumaix]

a film-makers masterpiece! symbolism, suspense, structure, everything...

[mo77mo77]

i dont get it, can someone explain please!!

[Dhulfeqar]

@mo77mo77 Girl waits for her father, which was martyred. She always meets train, hoping that father would return. One cold day she goes, and tired mother is fall asleep. Than girl freezes to death, and is joined with martyr's souls. Finally, she meets martyred father (at 6:52 bearded man is her father).

Truly heart-touching film.

[kamiltariq]

She died !!the train of martyrs took her soul !!amazing!!truly amazing ...

[themightyjoseph]

ooooooooooo i get it

[hussain92110]

It's a Gem of a story, very deep meaning, for the love of martyrs(& her dad) so much that even she reached martyrdom(& her dad), I've never seen such a masterpiece.

I think the director should have started the snowfall before the train arrived, then the man getting down & talking & taking the girl(soul) to her dad, then the mother comes & the rest scene, because some people didn't get, how she was in train & frozen too, I downloaded this in my Fav collections, almost cried, thnx bro 4 dis + subs

[uhhmazinq99]

wait.. she is already die?!

[germanicus24]

Looks dead to me :(

[crazychanel]

thanks brother

5*

[girljun]

thanks, i love this film. very nice.

[germanicus24]

If you know similar short revolutionary films can you please tell me about them?

[StalwartLife]

It's like that old quote, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it".

Also, what do you mean by taking heed.

[StalwartLife]

Interesting. I never thought of the West, at least not in the US and UK, to have it's own culture. What exactly do you mean by cultural propoganda?

[germanicus24]

I mean, for instance, the hundreds of millions of dollars that the US injects into Iran for "democracy" purposes yearly. I mean Voice of America, Radio Farda, Arabic satellite channels emitted for Iranian youth, and a BBC opening broadcasts in Persian just few months before the elections, all of them being so key for the cultural warfare, that it became a matter of British intelligence to shift BBC frequencies for Iran when Iran blocked its broadcasts encouraging more protests.

[StalwartLife]

That is a problem, especially when done under the guise of "freedom of the press". It's one thing when private media outlets do that, but not governments. Do you think the US and UK had a significant influence on the protests?

[germanicus24]

That is like asking me if I think the Sun comes out every morning. It certainly stopped being a matter of perspective or personal views with such an overwhelming case.

[StalwartLife]

Well, hopefully the West will learn to behave better. I hope that two different civilizations will learn to reconciliate their differences and coexist.

[germanicus24]

InshAllah. However God is the best of planners, and whatever civilization rejects learning from their own history, and reject taking heed, will commit suicide.

[IranianHezbollahShia]

Allaahommaah Salleeh Allaah Mohammad Waah Ali Mohammad!!

This is such a beautiful film! It makes me cry so much. Alhamdolillaah! We love all of our Basiji's!

[StalwartLife]

Yeah I know. Just read Animal Farm. That gives great insight to this problem.

In another video you said that The Islamic Republic posed a great alternative to the world order (or something like that). What did you mean?

[germanicus24]

That is a quote from a Swedish journalist/analyst. But it is my own belief.

It means that the Islamic Republic is free from the academicist traps and taboos that tyrant world powers have established and spread that castrate real human endeavor.

Those who are faithful to that system are engaged in building alternative understandings and approaches to tackle the problems of our world, and human kind as a whole will benefit much from it, as our own scientific elites admit we are at dead end.

[StalwartLife]

Hmm, interesting. Is this why it is such at odds with other countries, particularly the West?

Do you think war will break out? And if so, will the Islamic Republic be victorious?

[germanicus24]

My dear West is a dying civilization. Every dying being tries to hold on to life by any means possible when it faces death. What we see today, of this Western paranoia and fanaticism against the Islamic Revolution that only equates to Soviet propaganda of the very last years before the collapse, is just an expression of that.

An invasion of Iran is not possible. It is clear that it will never happen in that form, but just will continue as cultural warfare trying to turn Iranians against Islam.

[evatomo4341]

I am really amazed with this footage. How beautiful face and eyes that little girl has! I am against any radicalism or fundamentalism in this world but a great respect for the this movie director. More than for a martyr, how much the father was loved, and she went to meet him and now they are together. Deep peace...

[germanicus24]

Islamic fundamentalism is OK. Fundamentalism or faithfulness in good human values is not a bad thing, but the opposite. If you would actually meet the Iranian fundamentalists like those martyrs who gave their lives for the freedom of their country, you would also realize.

[StalwartLife]

Hmm, interesting video. Reminds me a bit of that classic story of the Little Match Girl.

But, to be quite frank, I never quite understood the focus given to martyrdom. One more soldier killed is one less soldier to resist against the enemy.

[germanicus24]

It has more to do with the fact that in the Iranian Shia tradition, every martyr raises dozens like him to carry on with further passion for the struggle against the enemy. Just learn about the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, whose death has raised millions in arms against tyranny for thousands of years.

[StalwartLife]

Do you mean Hussein ibn Ali?

[germanicus24]

Indeed.

[StalwartLife]

Don't mind me asking, but are you Iranian yourself?

[germanicus24]

No. I am Chilean of nationality, of German-Spanish ancestry, but now living in Japan. And you?

[StalwartLife]

I am a Russian Jew. I lived in the USSR until I was four, and then moved to the United Kingdom. I personally find Iran to be an interesting country

[germanicus24]

That must have been very interesting experiencing life in the URSS, even though I don't adhere to Marxism. Too bad you were so young though.

[StalwartLife]

Yea, but even if I could remember it, from what I know those were probably some of the worst times. The country was on the brink of collapse, and actually did collapse. I actually vaguely remember seeing tanks driving around in 1993. That was the constitutional crisis.

Personally, I feel that Marxism is not a practical system. If it worked, that would be great, but it won't

[germanicus24]

Agreed. My father worked for the central bank and planning ministry of the Marxist democratically elected government of Allende in Chile, and he himself now admits it was bound to fail anyway.

[StalwartLife]

At least that was democratically elected. The Soviet Union was by no means free. The Russian Federation still holds a few repressive tendencies

[germanicus24]

Democratically elected if we call it "democracy" for a president to win with 32% of the votes. I don't agree with neither Marxism or Capitalism, for they are based on very similar deceptions of that sort, where empty labels applied on elections ("democratic", "rigged", etc.) are above the genuine will of peoples behind.

[wandererguided]

so pure

[germanicus24]

True. One of the main values of the Islamic Revolution, masterfully expressed not only in their soldiers, but also their early artistic productions.

[colmmernagh]

Powerful stuff, RIP all the brave Iranian Martyrs who died fighting a most unjust war !!

[germanicus24]

Indeed, and as well those who continue to be killed by terrorist groups funded by the Mossad-CIA, and the many who were killed defending Tehran from the latest attempt of (green) coup.

[asif365]

SubhanAllah what a heartouching story!

[germanicus24]

True. And the more you know about the context of it, the more intense its symbols get.

[Zaman313]

Masha'Allah Simply amazaing..brillint

[germanicus24]

Thank you for watching. Revolutionary movies were much better than Westernized Iranian productions for sure.

[Zaman313]

No problem bro. they are for sure(this comes from a western white muslim lol) anytime you have this stuff bro let me know i be sure to give ratings Khuda Hafiz

[germanicus24]

Nice, so you are also a Western convert?

[Zaman313]

Alhumdulilah yes. I acceppted sunni Islam for about 9 months then three days b4 Muharamm 1429 AH I acceppted true Islam