Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof watched “There Is No Evil” with his own prison guards “seven nights in a row,” he recalled at Goteborg.
“I was still bound to the bed and they were complimenting me: ‘Well done for making such a wonderful film!’ The problem started when new guards came in the next day, and they wanted to watch it with me as well.”
It all went down when Rasoulof, who was experiencing health problems following his arrest, needed an operation. Multiple prison guards were making sure he couldn’t escape the hospital.
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