Film

People of the Wind

6.219761h 50mGDocumentary

Age rating: G
Director: Anthony Howarth
Year: 1976

There are two hundred miles of impassable mountains to cross. There are no towns, no roads, no bridges. There is no turning back.

The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most hazardous tests of human endurance known to mankind. Every year, 500,000 men, women and children — along with one million animals — struggle for eight grueling weeks to scale the massive Zagros Mountains — a range which is as high as the Alps and as broad as Switzerland — to reach their summer pastures.

Top cast

James Mason

Jafar Qoli (voice)

Shusha Guppy

Self

Anthony Howarth

Narrator (voice)

Directed by

Anthony Howarth

Written by

David Koff

Produced by

Anthony Howarth, David Koff