Beate Petersen

In 1842 the 11 year-old heir to the Persian throne, Nasseredin Mirza, received a photographic camera from Queen Victoria of England. In the following decades he documented his life, revealing to the public eye, what the public eye never was supposed to see.

This experimental film explores a metaphorical world of inner dilemmas. The title refers to the protagonist's tragic choice between two life concepts, where "C" stands for Christian (the Apollonian) and "D" for Dionysian (the Dionysian).