"The Desperate" Short Film Screening

Writer/Director Ben-Hur Sepehr speaking at a private screening of "The Desperate"

Nazi Hospital Drama 'The Desperate,' Confronts Ahmadinejad's Questioning of the Holocaust

Iranian Ex-Pat Ben-Hur Sepehr's Oscar Short Candidate Pits Condemned Jewish Surgeon and Grief-Stricken German Army General in Battle of the Wills

Iranian-Jewish writer-director Ben-Hur Sepehr will no doubt be opening old wounds with the release, as Yom Kippur ends, of his striking period film "The Desperate" about an imprisoned and eminent Jewish doctor who, on the eve of his scheduled execution in a concentration camp during World War II, is conscripted at gunpoint to perform emergency surgery on the son of a fearsome Nazi general.

Sepehr's deft narrative -- in which it appears the doctor and general's soldier son will either both perish or both outlive their respective predicaments -- enjoys its world premiere Mon. Sept. 28 at the Laemmle's Grand 4-Plex here across from the Bonaventure Hotel in its Oscar submission-qualifying run (through Wed. Sept. 30). The film's release comes at a time when "the flames of anti-Semitism continue to fan in all corners of the world, and people, including heads of state like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, deny the Holocaust," the Tehran native and father of two boys said. "It is imperative for us to keep reminding our children of what happened so it will never happen again."

"The Desperate" is produced by Sepehr, co-produced by Derrick Warfel ("Midnight Reckoning") and Ramin Rahmanpour, with Dale Fabrigar as line producer. Credits on the Tolerance Through Knowledge production claim DP Hiroki Miyano, film editor Harvey Rosenstock, casting director Neely Gurman and associate producer Chris Roberts.

http://www.thedesperatethemovie.com
http://www.tolerancethroughknowledge.org

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