“I was terrified.”
The first thing you notice about the director of the bold documentary ‘Alone among the Taliban’ is his staggering honesty; a trait that does quite well with his choice of occupation. Being a documentary filmmaker demands a certain amount of honesty coupled with courage and a critical as well as creative mind, all of which Mohsen Eslamzadeh seems to have in spades.
‘Alone among the Taliban’ was definitely a bold move on the part of a filmmaker new to documentary filmmaking, and who had spent 15 long, terrifying days among a militant group armed to the teeth, with whom Iran carries a dark history after the 1998 attack on the Iranian consulate in Mazar Sharif and the subsequent execution of 11 Iranian diplomats.
