Panorama Prague-born documentary maker shows ‘man of the people’ side of Iran’s Ahmadinejad in Letters to the President

19-03-2009 14:35 | Ian Willoughby

Letters to the President is a documentary about the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known around the world for his verbal attacks on America and Israel. In this film, however, the focus is very much on Ahmadinejad’s relationship with the people of his own country, hundreds of thousands of whom send the populist politician beseeching letters. The film’s Prague-born Canadian director Petr Lom got remarkably close to the Iranian president, though his uncritical approach has been denounced by some.

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