Gholam-Hossein Saedi was an acclaimed Iranian author, playwright and screenwriter with an oeuvre that contains more than thirty publications. Freedom And Other Maladies depicts Saedi's restless passion and heartbroken demise based on letters that he wrote over the years as well as interviews with his close friends and associates. The documentary film focuses on the last four years of Saedi's life in Paris, at the peak of his suffering, painfully aware that he would die in exile.
Shirin Saghaie
Writer, Director
Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
himself (footage archive)
Reza Aghnami
Bahman Amini
self
Ali Badri
self
Mohammad Jalai Chimeh
self
Hedayat Matin Daftari
self
Soheila Ghassemlou
self
Manouchehr Hezarkhani
self
Nasser Pakdaman
self
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