Sohrab And Rustum

Streaming video - 2018

WINNER! BEST ANIMATION, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL! SOHRAB AND RUSTUM is an animated film by award-winning Australian animator, Lee Whitmore, about a charismatic young English teacher reading a famous poem by Matthew Arnold to her class of fourteen year old girls whose concerns are pop music and nail polish. Unexpectedly the epic poem takes the girls on a journey to ancient Persia and a legendary battle on the sand between two warriors, the Tartar Sohrab and the Persian Rustum. The story ends tragically and the girls are confronted with the reality of death. In the last stanza watercolour images of the night sky over the mighty Oxus River are a reminder of the beautiful eternal nature of life. Back in the classroom the girls brush sand off their ...legs and Lee looks at the scarf a Tartar warrior has given her. The teacher smiles as she leaves the classroom.

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Ronin Films 2018.
2021.
Language
English
Other Authors
Lee Whitmore (film director)
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (14 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).