Ali Soozandeh
Directing
Known For

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
Tehran Taboo

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals

An analysis of the sources of inspiration that fed the imagination of the British writer, poet and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), great master of epic fantasy.
Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

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Die echten 007

A journey back to the historical inspirations for 007.
The Secret Life of James Bond

A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence.
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into oblivion today. Unjustly so. Moving archive images, documentary footage and graphic novels lead us back to the time of Friedrich Engels, who shaped the Communist movement like no other.
Friedrich Engels - Der Unterschätzte
The script focuses on puppy Pegah, who must fight for his survival as war rages in a village in the mountains of the Middle East. Through courage and bravery, but also luck, he joins the "Flaming Hearts" gang, the lords of the dump. His encounter with Sia, the rebels’ wild dog, fills him with joy. But it doesn't last. He is quickly sent to a mine detection dog camp and the survival of an entire unit will depend on his nose...