Hamoun (film)
Overview
 
Hamoun is a 1990 psychological drama movie directed by Dariush Mehrjui. The movie tells the story of a middle-class Iranian – Hamid Hamoun, played by Khosro Shakibai – and his struggle after his wife demands a divorce from him.
Hamid Hamoun who is an executive at a leading import-export firm lives with his wife Mahshid who is a budding artist in abstract painting. Mahshid hails from a rich family but marries the middle class Hamoun after falling for his intellectual tastes and forward views.
Quotations

אם תרצו, אין זו אגדה

Im tirtsu, ein zo agada

In reference to the area of the Jewish state: From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.

As quoted in Complete Diaries by Theodor Herzl, Volume II, page 711.

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

As quoted in The Israelis : Founders and Sons (1971) by Amos Elon, p. 57 : The Diaries of Theodore Herzl as edited and translated by Marvin Lowenthal (Dial Press, New York, 1956),

In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

In reaction to the Dreyfus affair|Dreyfus affair.

The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends; the anti-Semitic nations will become our allies.

Noting that anti-semite's desire to expel Jews from their nations would aid the Zionist cause.

 
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