A brief look at the European-looking characters in the Iranian “Ashura” passion plays, their role in the story, and their relationship to the recent invasion of the British embassy.
Siroos Ghahremani: a weird mixture of traditional “Ma’rekehgir”, Anthony Quin’s character in Fellini’s La Strada, with a touch of Hollywood and Italian ‘historic’ movies of the 1950s. In the early 1960s he established himself as the only star of his popular one-man show. He also made a small private “zoo” in Shiraz to make some money on the side by showing off his skinny malnourished animals caught in small cages.
→ Pictures of Siroos Ghahremani.
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