Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison

AKA:
"Grass" - USA (short title)
"Grass, the Epic of a Lost Tribe" - USA (alternative title)

The documentary presents the filmmakers' travel as a narrative of a return to an ancient past: they turn the pages of history backwards until they get to "the very first page". Therefore what they present to the audience in the documentary is not a culture in the present, but a culture of the past. Mention is made of a sort of genealogical quest for so-called Aryan origins of 3000 years ago, calling the Bakhtiari, "the Forgotten People". The film highlights migratory Anatolian and Iranian peoples as continuously in a struggle for survival: the hunter on the Taurus mountains "does not hunt for sport, he kills for food". The film presents the annual Bakhtiari migration to Iranian highlands, where several environmental difficulties stand in the way of the tribe, which over time has developed ingenious solutions to overcome them (barefoot trail cutting over snow-covered Zard Kuh, goat-skin floats at the river crossing, etc.).



Runtime: 71 min
Language: Silent
Country: USA
Color: Black and White

Cast:
Merian C. Cooper ... Himself (as Merian Cooper)
Ernest B. Schoedsack ... Himself
Marguerite Harrison ... Herself - a Journalist
Haidar Khan ... Himself - Chief of the Bakhtyari Tribe
Lufta ... Himself - Haidar Khan's Son

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