The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (Special Edition) PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 5, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Hannover House
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vanessa Redgrave, Rade Šerbedžija, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Espinosa, Adam Echahly, Bruno Lastra & Christopher Simpson | |
Directed by | Kayvan Mashayekh | |
Screenwriting by | Kayvan Mashayekh & Belle Avery | |
Composition by | Elton Ahi | |
Director of Photography: | Dusan Joksimovic & Matt Cantrell |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] plodding and pretentious historical drama.
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Village Voice
A lovely-looking, capably made motion picture.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 2/5 --
The Keeper suffers from a surfeit of scattershot acting and clunky narrative devices that usher the viewer back and forth through time with all the subtlety of a culture clash.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: 1/4 --
The writing, acting and direction are so amateurish that the only thing you'll care about is escaping the theater.
New York Post
Rating: 2/5 --
The story behind the making of The Keeper is more inspiring than the film itself.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The director approaches the enormity of his task with an earnest enthusiasm, offering a likable alternative to the assembly-line banality of so many family films.
New York Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
Comes to us wrapped in hand-woven shawls of struggle and perseverance.
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Slant Magazine
Product Description:
A pair of young men living in the 21st century relive the tales of one of their ancient forbearers in this historical drama. Kamran (Adam Echahly) is a 12-year-old boy of Iranian heritage whose older brother, Nader (Puya Behinaein), is slowly dying. Kamran and Nader's family puts a great value on preserving the oral history of their ancestors, and Nader is passing on this responsibility by telling his brother the story of their distant relative, the great scientist and poet Omar Khayyam (Bruno Lastra). In the 11th century, Omar is close friends with Hassan Sabbeh (Christopher Simpson), a passionate Muslim warrior, and they are both infatuated with the lovely Darya (Marie Espinosa). However, in time Omar and Hassan's paths in life diverge; Omar joins the court of the Sultan Malikshah (Moritz Bleibtreu) and uses his considerable wisdom to study mathematics and the stars, while Hassan succumbs to his rage and forms a cult of killers known as the Assassins. THE KEEPER: THE LEGEND OF OMAR KHAYYAM was the first feature film for Iranian-American director Kayvan Mashayekh.