It's Hitchcock and Iran this March

Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and Majid Majidi's Iranian masterpiece, The Colors of Paradise will be the movies for discussion this weekend.


Saturday, 27th March 6.00 pm : The Colors of Paradise
Sunday, 28th March 6.00pm : The 39 Steps
Venue: Lokmanya Hall, Bhagyanagar, Belgaum

The Colors of Paradise

Mohammad is an 8-year-old blind boy who lives in a school for blind children in Tehran. When summer comes, he is the last to be collected, but his poor, coalminer father eventually claims him and returns to his village. The countryside is magical, with fields full of colorful flowers, making Mohammad happy even though he cannot see them

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. The film stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.

There have been four major film versions of the book. Hitchcock's original has been the most acclaimed, and remains so today: In 1999 it came 4th in a BFI poll of British films,[1] while in 2004 Total Film named it the 21st greatest British movie of all time