Old Man and the Sea

(2018)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Runtime: 63 мин

Country: Iran

Director: Nahid Rezaei

Cast: Nahid Rezaei, محمدعلی کشاورز, Mohammadreza Jafari, Mohammad Sharifi

Plot

In a country where readership is low, Nahid Rezaei is surprised to see constant new titles in bookshops, most of them being translations of foreign texts. She begins to narrate the tale of translation in Iran: starting in the ancient era and ending with translators of today. Along the way she interviews key figures in Iran's modern translation history.