Dieser nur 22 Minuten lange Film ist eine Legende des Weltkinos. Das einzige flmische Werk der Dichterin Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967), unbestritten der wohl wichtigste Vorläufer des neuen iranischen Kinos von Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf oder Beizai. Jetzt bei UbuWeb, kurz vorgeschaltet dieser Hinweis von Eric Henderson

Following an opening statement accompanying a black screen that simultaneously warns and invites viewers to gaze upon that which society has deemed horrifying, Farrokhzad trains her lens insistently on the decay of human faces in bleak honesty, observing the lepers' flaccid eyelids (incapable of doing the biological job of protecting the eyes behind them from flies), the crusty, flaking stumps that used to be their feet, and their exposed nose cavities completely devoid of cartilage (one of them casually and surreally exhales cigarette smoke from the orfice).