Zero Degree Turn

• Shahab Hosseini: Habib Parsa
• Nathalie Matti: Sara Astrok
• Roya Taymourian: Asiah
• Masoud Rayegany: Mohammadhoseyn Parsa

Madar -e SEFR daradscheh (Persian مدار صفر درجه; unofficially in English Zero Degree Turn, unofficially on German width: zero degree ) is a thirty -piece Iranian TV series that was broadcast in 2007 for the first time on Iranian television. They treated first the Holocaust in the Iranian mass media. Produces the series by the Iranian government. Also occur in the film Women without headscarves on, what else is not common on Iranian television.

The series was only broadcast on Farsi, but they can be downloaded on the internet at the official website of the series with English subtitles or be viewed in the stream.

Action

Habib, a young Iranians, comes with two friends shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War to Paris to study philosophy. He falls in love with his Jewish classmate Sara. Soon the Nazis occupy the French capital and begin to deport Jews to concentration camps. The life of Sara and her family is in grave danger. Habib occurs as a savior: he procured them Iranian passports so that they can flee to Tehran.

Reception

The series is a huge success in Iran. Many foreign media praise the series. So writes the Wall Street Journal that the series sympathies clearly lie on the persecuted Jews, while stressing that the series is directed also against Zionism. However, this criticism is too narrow, so Spiegel Online: The series is laminated revisionism and attack subtly theories of Holocaust deniers and Revionisten such as Roger Garaudy in order to undermine the historical justification for the destruction of Israel. Thus, subjecting it to eg, Jewish Zionists had collaborated with Adolf Hitler to promote the Holocaust. This conspiratorial aspect was compared with the representation of historical facts, a preponderance in the series.