Ebrahim Golestan's visually striking documentary, "A Fire", which depicted a massive oil well fire in southwestern Iran, earned two awards at the Venice Film Festival. However, it was his groundbreaking film, "The Brick and the Mirror" (1965), that left an enduring mark on cinema.
The deposing of Mohammad Mossadegh by a combination of the United States’ CIA and British security forces was not an overnight event. As far back as 1951, there were “concerns,” as British Foreign Secretary at the time, Anthony Eden, late wrote in his memoirs.