Not Without My Daughter

1991
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Title: Not Without My Daughter

Original Title: Not Without My Daughter

Year: 1991

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: June 21 1991
  • United States: January 11 1991

Plot

Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) lives happily married with her husband, the iranian doctor Sayyed Bozorg alias "Moody" (Alfred Molina) and his daughter Mahtob (Sheila Rosenthal) in Michigan, United States. Everything changes when the family travels to Tehran to visit a couple weeks to relatives of "Moody" in the Iranian capital with the little girl Mahtob, who only has four years. However, what seemed a simple family trip to the roots of the parent culture becomes a trap for Betty and Mahtob, which will be held in the country and stigmatized by their Western origin. 'Not Without My Daughter' is a film of Brian Gilbert carried out in the early 90s.

Cast

Director:

Brian Gilbert Brian Gilbert

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Trivia

The escape

In the book, Betty Mahmoody and Mahtob escaped Iran thru the northern mountain regions in the dead of winter with severe ice and snow. The producers planned to film the escape scene in the Eilat Mountain in Southern Israel. However, there was no snow that winter and the escape scene was going to scrapped. Many protests arose because they felt the scene was essential. Sally Field even threatened to quit the project. The producers looked for other locations but either they were too expensive or unsafe for the actors and the crew. Finally, the scene was re written to have Betty Mahmoodey and Mahtob traveling thru the desert in searing heat.

Moonlight

"Mahtob" in Persian means "moonlight".

The point of view of Seyyed Bozorg Mahmoody

Mahtob's father, Seyyed Bozorg Mahmoody, later told his view of the events in the documentary film 'Ilman tytärtäni' (2002), aka "Without My Daughter."

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