Movies: Hossein Mansouri

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude....

A documentary fairy-tale that begins in northern Iran and winds its way to Munich’s Westend. There, the Iranian poet in exile, Hossein Mansouri, goes in search of the boy and discovers a real oriental fable about his own roots and the magical power o...