5.4 /10 1 Votes
Cinematography Jari Pollari Release date 2002 Screenplay Alexis Kouros Produced by Kari Tervo, Alexis Kouros | 5.3/10 IMDb Edited by Riitta Poikselkä Initial release 29 November 2002 Budget 423,600 EUR Music director Tuomas Kantelinen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directed by Kari TervoAlexis Kouros Similar Elena's Gift, The Virgin Of Lust, Heroes Shed No Tears, Client Seduction, Cut Snake | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Without my daughter part 1 of 6
Without My Daughter (2002, Finland) is a 90-minute documentary directed by Kari Tervo and Alexis Kouros.
Contents
- Without my daughter part 1 of 6
- All grown up girl from not without my daughter shares her story
- Festival screenings
- References
In 1987, a book titled Not Without My Daughter was published, based on the story of an American woman, Betty Mahmoody. According to the book, Mahmoody and her daughter Mahtob Mahmoody were taken by her Iranian husband, Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody, for a "two-week holiday" to Iran, and he kept them there against their will. She managed to escape 18 months later, taking their 5-year-old daughter with her to Turkey and back to the United States. In 1991, a movie titled Not Without My Daughter starring Sally Field was released, based on the events described in her book.
This documentary tells Sayed Mahmoody's side of that story. It goes beyond the personal and emotional desires of a father seeking to meet his daughter, and explores the wider political and global contexts underlying the case of the Mahmoody family.