Author: Andrew Marszal
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Iran director in exile says ‘bittersweet’ to rep Germany at Oscars
Forced to flee Iran, dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof says it is bittersweet that his latest movie will contend at the Oscars — under the banner of another country. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” a paranoid thriller that was shot in secret and depicts a family torn apart by Iran’s brutally repressive politics, has earned…