Zero Degree Turn (2007)
Zero Degree Turn is a 2007 television series, made through the cooperation of Iran, Hungary, France and Lebanon. The program was one of most expensive and elaborate ever produced by Iran and attracted a large audience there. It is based on a real life story about Iranian diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardari who saved Jews in 1940s Paris during the Nazi Occupation by giving out Iranian passports and allowing them refuge in the Iranian Embassy. Although it has been noted that neither character names nor the story are close to Sardari's story.
Cast & Crew
- Director
Habib Parsa Shahab Hosseini
Roya Teymourian
Masoud Rayegan
Laya Zanganeh
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Payam Dehkordi
Season 1
2007
30 episodes
Season 1 of Zero Degree Turn premiered on April 23, 2007
Set in the time of the Second World War, Madare Sefr Darajeh follows the life of an Iranian student named Habib Parsa (Shahab Hosseini) who travels to Paris to study. There Habib meets a French Jewish woman named Sara Astrok, a student at the same university.
